Subject: Re: Sheesh. More LKMs. And some firewall stupidity.
To: None <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@cs.swarthmore.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/20/2000 00:57:53
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:12:37AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On 08/16/2000 16:24:57, Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > There is already support for swapping to a vnode filesystem.  Sounds
> > like what you should be doing is defining the vnode calls to swap
> > page data, not modifying UVM itself.
> 
> Now, maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how vnodes
> help my situation.

And further, from vnd(4):

BUGS
     The vnd driver does not work if the file does not reside in a local
     filesystem.

Definitely not making me think I'm interested in the vnode pager..

       ~ g r @cs.swarthmore.edu