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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:46:38 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DISCUSS: vnode references as open instances
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.970408194411.10905A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970408185516.10389B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Michael Hancock wrote:

> Terry,
> 
> I think it will be hard to get support to change ufs this drastically at
> this time since Kirk is working on soft updates.  And there is also quite
> of a bit of community interest in having a trusted stable fs
> implementation to fall back on.
> 
> How you considered what Netcom? did with tfs?  It seems they use their own
> vnode allocation scheme.  I vaguely remember seeing changes made to allow
> this. 

I just verified this.  Grep for VT_TFS in /sys/kern.  It's a special case
hack, but maybe we can come up with a more general way of informing the
kernel that we're doing our own vnode management.

Regards,


Mike




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