Subject: Re: removing VOPs
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/30/2005 14:14:51
YAMAMOTO Takashi writes:
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> i can see your point. however, i have a different opinion.
> GOPs and "ufs ops" don't need complexity which VOP has.
> plain function pointers are just fine.
> (i doubt if VOPs really need this complexity, but it's another topic.)
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).
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> YAMAMOTO Takashi
>
Nikita.