From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 17 13:25:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041A837B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3HKOoU27293; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:24:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matt Dillon Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Kirk McKusick , Julian Elischer , Rik van Riel , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Xu Subject: Re: vm balance In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:16:09 PDT." <200104172016.f3HKG9l05966@earth.backplane.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:24:50 +0200 Message-ID: <27291.987539090@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200104172016.f3HKG9l05966@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > >: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. > > I know vnodes are in stable storage. I'm just saying that NFS > is the least of your worries in trying to change that. The namecache can do without the use of soft references. The only reason vnodes are stable storage any more is that NFS uses soft references to vnodes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message