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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: vnode as filesystem (crash!)
In-Reply-To: <199704142055.NAA19330@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Apr 14, 97 01:55:10 pm"
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:56:56 -0500 (EST)
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> I believe FreeBSD is missing a number of calls to vnode_pager_setsize()
> that NetBSD has.
> 
Actually, vnode_pager_setsize (and it's equally often evil friend,
vnode_pager_uncache) are used too often (and incorrectly) in the original
(Lite/2) code.

>
> There is also a FreeBSD ftruncate() case where if the indirect blocks
> are not zero, FreeBSD will we itself (NetBSD fixed this too).
> 
I didn't know about that.

John