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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!cs.utexas.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SMP support and unified VM/File System Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 20:35:38 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 25 Message-ID: <337FCA8A.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> References: <5li92u$723@bubbla.uri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Yiming Hu <hu@ele.uri.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41104 Yiming Hu wrote: > (1) Is there a version of FreeBSD that supports SMP (more than > 4 processors) ? Not quite yet, but it is being worked on right now. If you'd care to help, please send mail to smp@freebsd.org and declare your interest. > and AIX. My question is, where can I find more information > about the algorithm and implementation of the unified VM/FS? > "The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD" book talks > only about the old buffer cache approach. I think this exists solely in the heads of John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> and David Greenman <davidg@freebsd.org> right now. Why not send them email and ask? > (3) There are several books discussing the internal of Linux. > Is there any simular book/paper available for FreeBSD, > other than the McKusick's book? Not yet. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.