ext2fs panic with Dfly 1.5.2

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sat Apr 1 17:05:40 PST 2006


:why on earth does ext2_read cascade to ufs_*?  is that the operation on=20=
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:the /dev vnode which is on an ufs?  but then it should be specfs, or=20
:not?  i'm puzzled.  if this isn't fishy, somebody gotta explain to me=20
:how reads really run through the kernel until they reach the DMA.
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:cheers
:   simon

    You'd have to look at the FreeBSD cvs history.  I think ext2 is close
    enough to ufs that the person who did the original port decided to 
    just use most of the UFS code, with a few conditionalized exceptions.
    Don't ask me why.

						-Matt





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