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From: leisner@hydrus (Marty Leisner x71348 )
Subject: Re: looking for bsd ffs user-mode implementation quote
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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.

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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