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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:53:53 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updated vfs patches
Message-ID:  <3536EE71.41C67EA6@whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.980417141611.17404A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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Michael Hancock wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Michael Hancock wrote:
> 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~mch/vop1a.diff
> >
> > 1) In the original code, ext2_rmdir and msdosfs_rmdir release the lock
> > across the truncate call but ufs_rmdir doesn't.  The ufs_rmdir
> > implementation make it clean for me because I just delete the vput(), but
> > in ext2_rmdir and msdosfs_rmdir I must reacquire the lock so the generic
> > layer can do the vput() (phew!).  I'm not sure if we should be holding a
> > lock across truncate and I have yet to review the logs yet to see why.
> > Perhaps someone can shed some light on this.
> 
> I found it (POST_SOFTUPDATES)!  Do we not block when calling truncate with
> softupdates on?
> 
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now THAT is a good question......
I basically took the code from kirk's changes and he seemed
(from my memory.. I don't have the changes here) to have made 
that change, so I did too. I'd have to ask kirk WHY he did that 
and he's out of town for 1 more week.

julian

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