On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, I wrote:

> http://www.freebsd.org/~mch/vfs1.html

If you reply publically, please trim the headers to the relevant mailing
lists but keep me included because I'm not a member of all of them. 

Ok, I've gotten some positive comments on this.  Here's a summary:

1) It's a nicer framework to experiment with alternative central vnode
management systems such as per-CPU vnode pools.  We can keep the existing
standard implementation for UP, but distribute hot spots in an SMP
version. 

2) AFS people with source licenses like it because we can work around
third party implementations that refuse to retain OS patches.

3) I should do locking state sooner.  I'll get to it and the web page
includes an implementation of vn_put() which will be used in the generic
layer.

Regards,


Mike Hancock