From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 1 13:23: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f116.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1215514CD1 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhangsuny@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 65549 invoked by uid 0); 1 Oct 1999 20:22:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19991001202246.65548.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 128.226.3.130 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 01 Oct 1999 13:22:46 PDT X-Originating-IP: [128.226.3.130] From: "Zhihui Zhang" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: block, I/O, on, locked, vnode Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 16:22:46 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following is copied from the comments of FFS code: "Block devices associated with filesystems may have new I/O requests posted for them even if the vnode is *locked*, so no amount of trying will get them clean. Thus we give block devices a good effort, then just give up. For all other file types, go around and try again until it is clean." Can anyone explain to me when this situation will occur and, preferrably, point to the place of the related source code? Any help is appreciated. -Zhihui ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message