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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:32:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
To:        Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vnodes (UFS journaling)?
Message-ID:  <20020808213242.72797.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0208072033520.24055-100000@dishwasher.cs.rpi.edu>

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--- Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
> we are trying to implement a logging facility for the File System. Hence
> we need to open the log file and keep its vnode open throughout the
> duration while the system is mounted. Hence, we cannot free the vnode
> after searching for it using the root file system since we need to access
> it later on. However, if we do not
> return the vnode, then doing an "ls -al" in the dirctory where the log
> file is present hangs the kernel.

Just wondering, are you planning to use a device, or just a file on a
filesystem for doing the logging?

  -- Hiten Pandya
  -- hiten at uk dot freebsd dot org

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