On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Doing some more archaeology...
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Edward K. Ream<[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >> This seems like something of an oversimplification to me.  The topology
> >> of vnodes defines the context in which your referencing a tnode.
> >
> > Yes, you are correct.  I misspoke.  Vnodes *used to* correspond to nodes
> on
> > the screen, but that is ancient history.
>
> Ah, so this explains existence of vnodes - they were analogous to
> positions before , but this analogy was removed at some point
> (effectively making vnodes redundant).


Yes, you could put it that way.  The  key picture was fingers holding
beans.  The fingers are positions; the beans; vnodes.  This allows the
*combination* of positions and vnodes to do what was previously done by
vnodes and tnodes.  Thus, the unified node world was born.

Edward

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