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.
 



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