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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 1997 21:02:01 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@freefall.freebsd.org, michaelh@cet.co.jp
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/conf options
Message-ID:  <199702281002.VAA07490@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>   Branch:      sys/conf  RELENG_2_2
>>   Modified:    sys/conf  options
>>   Log:
>>   YAMFC (everything except INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE, CHILD_MAX, OPEN_MAX and
>>   ARP_PROXYALL.  This merge is mainly to start nuking EXTRAVNODES.  It
>>   also removes some non-optional MSG* and SEM* "options" and sorts the
>>   options).

>Is the intent to be able to increase vnodes via sysctl?  The ability to
>decrease will likely break a lot of assumptions made in the code. 

Changing the number vnodes via sysctl is a standard 4.4BSD (Lite1) feature.
Decreasing the number below the current number allocated has no effect
except to inhibit future allocations.  The limit is fuzzy anyway.

Bruce
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