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. > > >> 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
