In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian
Elischer writes:
>On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Matt doesn't represent the FreeBSD project, and even if he rewrites
>> the VFS subsystem so he can understand it, his rewrite would face
>> considerable resistance on its way into FreeBSD. I don't think
>> there is reason to rewrite it, but there certainly are areas
>> that need fixing.
>
>You are misinformed as far as I know.. From discussions I saw, th
>main architect of a VFS rewrite would be Kirk, and Matt would be acting as
>Kirk's right-hand-man.
I bet that Matt and Kirk uses "rewrite" for two very different
concepts. The resulting reviews will be equally different.
>> >> The use of the "vfs_default" to make unimplemented VOP's
>> >> fall through to code which implements function, while well
>> >> intentioned, is misguided.
>>
>> I beg to differ. The only difference is that we pass through
>> multiple layers before we hit the bottom of the stack. There is
>> no loss of functionality but significant gain of clarity and
>> modularity.
>
>Well I believe that Kirk considers them misguided too, but he stated that
>he wasn't going to remove them without serious thought about the alternatives.
I'll be more than ready to discuss this with Kirk.
--
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