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From: leisner@hydrus (Marty Leisner x71348 )
Subject: Re: looking for bsd ffs user-mode implementation quote
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 23:46:49 GMT
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Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) wrote:
: scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) writes:
: >Does anyone remember the text I'm talking about, and can anyone
: >suggest where it might be? (I'm just trying to cite it as a
: >reference; it was a powerful statement on the virtues of
: >user-mode development of code that classically belongs in,
: >or is on its way into, the kernel.)
: Yes, I remember that text. It was indeed part of the
: ``A Fast File Syystem for UNIX'' paper as it appeared
: in the 4.2 docs. That paper had a chapter 6 ``Software
: engeneering''. The version of the paper in the 4.3-net2
: sources lacks that chapter. We no longer have the 4.2
: (nor the 4.3) sources on-line so I can't send you a copy.
: It is in the 4.2 docs, I checked my hardcopy.
: Casper
From the 4.3 netbsd tapes:
A Fast File System for UNIX*
Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy,
Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry
Computer Systems Research Group
Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Its in share/doc/smm/14.fastfs.
--
Marty Leisner leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
"God does not play dice with the universe" -- Albert Einstein
"Albert, stop telling god what to do " -- Neils Bohr