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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 00:11:40 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vcount - only devices?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050009160.12433-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011042348180.12433-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:

> I'm just looking at vcount in sys/kern/vfs_subr.c. The comment says that
> it works on special devices. Does this mean it wont work if called on a

I think I see what it means now. It is meaning that ir works on the file
the vnode is for as opposed to the vnode itself. The reason being that
more than one vnode can reference the same file.

Am I somewhat closer? Any release date for the Design of FreeBSD book yet?

Thanks,

Andrew



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