In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas David Rivers writes
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>> seems to work fine,
>> except that now we don't have block devices any more
>> so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW.
>>
>> I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger
>> on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices.
>
>Hmmm.... I wonder what it would take to bring them (block devices) back...
>probably out of the question at this point...
It is not out of the question to bring buffered disk access back,
but it will be an ioctl enabled function for disks, not a vnode
mode. Peter has suggested doing it with a layered device a'la vn(4).
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