22 May
2001
22 May
'01
5:34 p.m.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:12:24AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
You'd better ask some resident PDP/2.11BSD guru but I can think
of the (relatively) small address space, segmentation and the like.
And at least I prefer running programs rather than just operating
systems on my machines:)
vnodes were originally an idea/implementation(?) by Sun:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/355180.html
Basically the vnode layer sits between the lower filesystem layers and
system calls. Gives you coherent access to different filesystems.
Jarkko Teppo skrev:
It won't use a serial console, unless told so via a HIL keyboard. If I had a
HIL keyboard, I would not need a serial console.
Weird. I've *always* though that it would go to serial if you remove
the keyboard and/or the framebuffer. If I don't connect a HIL
keyboard on mine it prints out Blaablaa blaa press R for local console.
RS-232 is "remote console".
I love NFS as much as the next guy but if you
start adding stuff
like NFS, why not have vnodes (well, you better have!) and once
you have vnodes why not start supporting different file systems...
A bit much for a PDP :)
Why not support different file systems? And what is a vnode?
What is an Altos?
I'm going to find out:)
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jht