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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

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