21143 updates, and Re: large number of TX packets on ftp

[Peter Stein]

>That's just an issue with the prototypes for the VFS layer functions being
>slightly different in 2.1. You might notice that the code is identical (i.e.
>it just returns 0 bytes available to read and a fully sucessful write.  It
>does no IO)

Obviously the code is identical. Does that mean what happens before and after
this code is called is identical? 

>Don't take my word for it - just do a "cat </dev/zero >/dev/null" and watch
>the lack of disk activity.

My drive LED lights up in the same way when ftp'ing to /dev/null. What activity
is causing it to flicker on and off? 

Peter Stein
nbi@xnet.com