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you could use their vnode switch--possibly called something else
but i haven't got the old documentation here--to convert file system operations
to messages in much the same way as the 8th edition file system switch,
although the latter was simpler.  (the RFS changes were something else again.)
NFS wasn't completely useful because the close wasn't transmitted.


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boyd@strakt.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:

> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> > At the time that article was written, BSD had no such way.
> 
> I read 1996.  4.3BSD had the DEADFS and ample functionality
> to do a file-system switch (well, they told us 'we already
> got one... it's very nice') as early as 1991-1992.

BSD had the ability to put one *in* the kernel.  Not out of, except by
hacks like using the NFS protocol.

Thomas
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