Although not precisely in a topic, but somewhat related: It would be great to eliminate long standing bug-o-featire in FreeBSD, famous Floppy-Panic when removing unmounted removable media causes a panic. It was quite ok with floppies, since they were rarely used, but really annoing with USB sticks and HDD's.
The same issue recently raised again in freebsd-stable list. But AFAIU we have completely different VFS layer. So, this case could already had been covered. Just ignore it if so. 2007/7/25, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hey, as a 1.11 topic I think we should change the vnode/file interface to make more sense. these are of course just stupid ideas to illustrate what I am thinking of: - all per-fdesc-I/O runs through a struct file and not directly to a vnode - vnodes only represent logical entities (on disk), NOT devices or whatnot. - thus drop specfs, this always seemed switched in at the wrong place in the stack - this will allow us to do device cloning - a slim vnode interface makes it easier to do support a... - userland vfs interface which can support something like the kernel API, so userland drivers have a chance to be easily ported to the kernel. do I make sense? feedback expected! cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
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