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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:02:43 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>
Subject:   Re: vm balance 
Message-ID:  <27001.987537763@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:58:38 PDT." <20010417125838.J976@fw.wintelcom.net> 

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In message <20010417125838.J976@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>I thought vnodes were in stable storage?

They are, that's the point Matt is not seeing yet.

>Note that I really don't care for using stable storeage as a hack
>to deal with this sort of thing.

Well, I have to admit that it is a pretty smart way of dealing with
it for remote operations, but the trouble is that it prevents us from
ever lowering their number again.

If Matt can device a smart way to loose the soft reference in nfs,
vnodes can be a truly dynamic thing.

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