Re: the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote: I do not want to sound offensive here but I don't get the point of this discussion at all. What exactly is wrong with null mounts and / or the way PFS work ? If you want to have seperate partitions instead of PFS, thats perfectly fine, nobody forces you to use

EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Matthew Dillon wrote: There are several reasons for using PFSs. EUREKA! Matt - you've re-invented Ramphotyphlops braminus: Weigh this: PFS = Parthenogenetic File System hammer pfs-master = select a host. hammer pfs-slave = induce ovulation. hammer mirror-copy = self-inseminate

Fwd: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Colin Adams
-- Forwarded message -- From: Colin Adams colinpaulad...@googlemail.com Date: 2009/2/18 Subject: Re: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs To: Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org 2009/2/18 Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org: Proven pattern among Odontata, too: http://ecoevo.uvigo.es

Re: Fwd: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Colin Adams wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Colin Adams colinpaulad...@googlemail.com Date: 2009/2/18 Subject: Re: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs 2009/2/18 Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org: Proven pattern among Odontata, too: http://ecoevo.uvigo.es/Olalla/index_en.htm

the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-17 Thread Bill Hacker
Folks, Google was no help, and I have only the last 54,000 or so of the DragonFlyBSD newsgroup messages to hand on on the PowerBook, wherein a message-body search on pfs, PFS, pseudofs turned up only about 240 or so messages, or Mark One eyeball processing.. That now done, I find: Several