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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: vclean (was The VIVA file system)
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> > > Yikes!  I took a look below, but I didn't expect to see vgone() calls in
> > > ufs_inactive(). 
> > > 
> > >         if (vp->v_usecount == 0 && ip->i_mode == 0)
> > >                 vgone(vp);
> > > 
> > > I need to figure out what ip->i_mode == 0 means.
> > 
> > The file type is a non-zero value in the high bits of the mode word;
> > it means that the inode does not refer to real data any more.

I misunderstood this for some reason.  ip->ipmode is ip-i_din.di_mode so
it means the file was removed.  I was being stupid and thought it had to
do with the state of the in-core inode.

It's correct to have vgone() here to preserve the Unix unlink semantics.

Regards,


Mike Hancock