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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil on devfs
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:55:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511261655k2192b177j1fda70816e472e23@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0511261654w3dfc7b35p7803a2930f6b634c@mail.gmail.com>

> I would rather see a merging of devfs
> into the devsd framework.  Then 9fat:
> doesn't need to change at all and we're
> back to having all the disk devices served
> by #S.  I'm not sure what the name should
> be (sdV0 for virtual?), but then you can
> just parse ctl commands written to
> /dev/sdV0/ctl to create new disks under
> /dev/sdV0.

Along with this, I would like to see some disk i/o
kprocs so that devfs is not slower than the usual
disks.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-27  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-22 19:27 Heiko Dudzus
2005-11-22 19:37 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-22 20:23   ` Russ Cox
2005-11-22 19:37 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-26 13:30   ` Heiko Dudzus
2005-11-26 13:55     ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-26 14:34       ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-26 14:42         ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-26 17:55       ` Heiko Dudzus
2005-11-27  0:54         ` Russ Cox
2005-11-27  0:55           ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-02-02 20:51 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-02-02 23:20   ` Steve Simon
2006-02-03  0:18     ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-03  9:10       ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-02-03 18:21         ` Heiko Dudzus
2006-02-04 15:28           ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-02-04 12:25         ` Steve Simon

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