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From: Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: vnodes (UFS journaling)?
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Although as of now we are writing it into a log file on the filesystem,
however it should also work for a device

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote:

> --- 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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