In message <pine.bsf.3.95.990818105716.12306a-100...@current1.whistle.com>, 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
