From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 9 19:20:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20786 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20776 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07675; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:20:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd007608; Mon Mar 9 20:20:44 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23886; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:20:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803100320.UAA23886@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: vnode_pager: *** WARNING *** stale FS code in system To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:20:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Mar 10, 98 10:56:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The flat-namespace filestore vop's were just taken out. They didn't > really fit earlier since they didn't have vnodes associated with them. > They were hand coded and bypass mechanisms were special cased to ignore > them. > > This policy has changed recently so there's no reason not to bring them > back, but a little work will need to be done to update them to include a > vnode arg. Yes. The flat namespace needs to be accessed via a naming (ie: vnode) mechanism. There are a lot of nice little hurdles in doing that, starting with the soft updates code (which wants to depend on them being there). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message