Haai,

Once again I witness a discussion with increasing amazement. Why layer
fs's at the vnode level if you're going to run into silly problems? The
(kernel versions of) the file-based system calls (perhaps augmented by
more specific calls for metadata) should do the job perfectly; it's
obviously a much cleaner design. In practice, this probably means removing
most (all?) layer code from the kernel once puffs(4) is stable.

Also, since my question about the appearant usage of '/root' instead of
'/' is presently unaswered, I presume '/' was a floppy image or RAM disk,
and '/root' was not ~superluser? If that is the case, I'd like to advocate
the implementation of a pivotfs() system call instead; again, it's more
generic and subsequently cleaner. However, I do not know what exactly that
will involve -- can anyone enlighten me? Thanks in advance.

Baai,

De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!

On Thu, July 5, 2007 20:14, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:20:11PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
>> On Thu Jul 05 2007 at 10:43:56 -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
>[snip content, for this is a meta-issue]