Subject: Re: removing VOPs
To: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/30/2005 06:32:29
On Sep 30, 2005, at 3:14 AM, Nikita Danilov wrote:

> Advantage VOPs have over plain function pointers is that stacked file
> system can forward a VOP it doesn't understand. That is, if new VOP is
> added, old file system modules can work (even without
> recompilation).

We will keep the VOPs that it makes sense to support.  But we're  
talking about completely internal file system operations that have no  
business being exported in the first place.

-- thorpej