[...] > And, for that purpose alone, I'd recommend finding a > way to make as > many detailed design documents public and accessible > as possible. > > That's where this sort of documentation belongs -- in > its proper > context as an implementation detail of the system, > and not in a man > page where it will (inevitably) be confused with a > supported feature, > and hurt someone.
Well, I know I'd certainly like to see a history of vfs/vnode changes from Solaris 7 forward, since the last port of FiST (www.filesystems.org) to Solaris was to Solaris 7. I know there were some changes for 8 (for forced unmount?), but that's as much as I've really paid attention to. I keep hoping that with such a document, the FiST author might be interested in keeping one of his students busy updating the port, which would IMO be rather cool to have. Filesystems are perhaps one of those cases of something that's not an interface in the formal sense (or at least certainly not a public one), but just cries out to be...I seem to recall some talk that it might be under consideration to eventually make it into something versioned that could be made into a public interface. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
