I am making good progress on the BIO conversion... that is, changing
all the VFS and DEV strategy code to take a layerable struct bio
instead of a struct buf and to disassociate the VM and vnode backing
store for the original struct buf from the actual I/O. This work
is simil
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:16:56PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Sun is playing nice with open-source at the moment, but will
> :they continue to play nice when their stock price drops yet
> :another 50% ? I dunno. I hope so.
>
> They've released the source under their creative commons lic
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:16 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this:
> :
> :"...Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology,
> :which is unique to ZFS..."
> :
> :I still don't know was ZFS is, but now I know it's proprietary,
> :like jav
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:14 -0800, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:39:43PM -0600, Jake Maciejewski wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:37 -0800, walt wrote:
> > > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > This work will eventually dovetail into the ZFS work...
> > >
> > > I
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:39:43PM -0600, Jake Maciejewski wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:37 -0800, walt wrote:
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > [...]
> > > This work will eventually dovetail into the ZFS work...
> >
> > I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this:
> >
> > "...
:I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this:
:
:"...Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology,
:which is unique to ZFS..."
:
:I still don't know was ZFS is, but now I know it's proprietary,
:like java, with all the same baggage attached.
:
:Sun is playing nice with ope
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:37 -0800, walt wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> [...]
> > This work will eventually dovetail into the ZFS work...
>
> I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this:
>
> "...Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology,
> which is unique to ZFS..
Matthew Dillon wrote:
[...]
> This work will eventually dovetail into the ZFS work...
I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this:
"...Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology,
which is unique to ZFS..."
I still don't know was ZFS is, but now I know it's propriet
Ok, the parallel route table code has been committed. Be prepared for
some potential destabilization in HEAD.
The next bit of work is going to be the buffer cache's indexing
conversion from logical block numbers to byte-offset ranges. This
work is going to accomplish the foll
