:why on earth does ext2_read cascade to ufs_*? is that the operation on=20=
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:the /dev vnode which is on an ufs? but then it should be specfs, or=20
:not? i'm puzzled. if this isn't fishy, somebody gotta explain to me=20
:how reads really run through the kernel until they reach the DMA.
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:cheers
: simon
You'd have to look at the FreeBSD cvs history. I think ext2 is close
enough to ufs that the person who did the original port decided to
just use most of the UFS code, with a few conditionalized exceptions.
Don't ask me why.
-Matt
