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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:15:59 -0700
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: VOP_INACTIVE(9): reclaiming space for open but deleted files?
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Inactive is called when the last =E2=80=9Copen=E2=80=9D goes away.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 7:46 AM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> VOP_INACTIVE(9) says that the vop can "be used to reclaim space for
> =E2=80=98open but deleted=E2=80=99 files".  What does that mean?  How can=
 you reclaim
> space for open files?  I assume it's just a mistake, but I want to
> check before I fix the man page.  SVN archaeology shows that the line
> has been present since a mass import of man pages in 1997.
> -Alan
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