Date: 27 May 1999 16:05:18 +0300 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhihui Zhang) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A bug in namei cache? Message-ID: <867lpufysx.fsf@not.demophon.com> In-Reply-To: zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu's message of "25 May 1999 19:46:20 %2B0300" References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990525122841.26333A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhihui Zhang) writes: > Suppose you want to mv a directory file (with subdirectories) to another > name (it is like grafting a subtree to another point), the namecache > associated with the source directory file will be purged by calling > cache_purge() (done in ufs_rename()?). However, the routine cache_purge() > does not purge cache entries recursively down the subtree. Will this > result in a lot of stale entries in the namecache? FreeBSD 3.1 no longer The name cache only caches component names, not paths, so the entries are still valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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