Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:15:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes Message-ID: <3DBD9AD8.1CE671F9@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021028115619.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see > if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with > device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do anything > useful with them or does it just print them somewhere? Is a user > going to care if the inode number was obtained from the vnode > or if we groveled in the internals of UFS to find it? The user will, if they try to use "find -inum" to identify the file name associated with it, since the vnode number is useless for this purpose, and the inode number is not... particularly if the information is being obtained from a log file. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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