From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 29 15:22:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5CC16A4A7 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85E4243D45 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:22:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 29 Oct 2006 15:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:22:27 +0000 From: David Malone To: Yar Tikhiy Message-ID: <20061029152227.GA11826@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20061029140716.GA12058@comp.chem.msu.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061029140716.GA12058@comp.chem.msu.su> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File trees: the deeper, the weirder X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:22:31 -0000 On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:07:16PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > Weird, eh? Any ideas what's going on? I would guess that you need a new vnode to create the new file, but no vnodes are obvious candidates for freeing because they all have a child directory in use. Is there some sort of vnode clearing that goes on every second if we are short of vnodes? David.