Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:05:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>, Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, NetBSD Kernel <tech-kern@netbsd.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906272101010.24019-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906280051.RAA07365@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote: > Regarding unlink()... those aren't operations on vnodes. Those are > operations on the filesystem namespace, and are thus (correctly) > unaffected. Eh, wait. Those are operations on namespace, but at some moment you need to clean the bit in inode bitmap. You can't do it before the last close() and it definitely alters the filesystem. fsck will pick them up, but that may be *not* a desired result. Dirty filesystem is definitely not desired anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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