From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Aug 8 14:32:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2737937B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web21106.mail.yahoo.com (web21106.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCCCA43E65 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020808213242.72797.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21106.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:32:42 PDT Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:32:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vnodes (UFS journaling)? To: Rashim Gupta , Terry Lambert Cc: "David E. Cross" , fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- Rashim Gupta 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message