From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 12:16:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBBA37B401; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEF843E42; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:16:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0064.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.64] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186GJQ-00036g-00; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:16:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBD9AD8.1CE671F9@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:15:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , current@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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