From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 14 16:58:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D839815026 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA13101; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:58:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199906142358.QAA13101@apollo.backplane.com> To: Joel Ray Holveck Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn swapfiles deleted while in use References: <86vhcr3bav.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <199906140701.AAA06746@apollo.backplane.com> <861zff2b08.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :>> What, to the reckoning of the resident populace, would happen if :>> somebody were to rm a vnconfig'd swapfile while it was in use? :> The system still has a reference to the file, even deleted, :> so all you would be doing would be removing its directory :> entry. : :And what happens when the system is shut down? Would everything :happen nicely then? : :Thanks, :joelh I have no idea. I seem to recall a bug report indicating that the system sometimes shutsdown unclean due to the VN mount maintaining its lock on the file. -Matt Matthew Dillon :-- :Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org : Fourth law of programming: : Anything that can go wrong wi :sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message