struct buf * and journaled-UFS help

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Mar 3 13:51:33 PST 2004


In message <20040304163927.5babadf9 at kanpc.gte.com>, Alexander Kabaev writes:

>If you don't need any delwri functionality struct buf provides, I would
>suggest using struct bio to route IO directly to storage drivers/geom.

No, nono! nonononoOOOOO!!!!

We do not want to maintain two I/O paths from one filesystem which
already has it's laundry picked up in SPECFS.

UFS must stick to the buffer cache for now.

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