[openbeosstorage] Re: Device API: Implementation
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:58:05 +0100 CET
"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When you receive a notification message, you only get IDs and need to
> retrieve the respective objects, if you want more than that. The
> required data are available in the registrar only. Well, with a path
> to
> a device, the API in libbe could of course directly use the
> disk=5Fscanner functions to get the information, but that will be
> rather
> slow considering that the registrar has an always up to date device
> list.
Well, syscalls should be faster than message passing, so that up-to-
date list is probably not that beneficial (at least I think so).
> > Sounds nice! As for the FS initialization: the file system call
> > should
> > be more or less the same as the mount() call.
> > I will add some calls to the FS API for discussion shortly, this
> > will
> > also affect file system initialization.
> Very nice. I'm waiting with bated breath. ;-)
Don't do that too long :-))
I think I will first complete the stdio almost rewrite before following
the next topic :)
Adios...
Axel.
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