Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:16:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "Martin v.Loewis" <loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VGET question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960730101330.11210A-100000@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: <199607291356.GAA26819@root.com>
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On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, David Greenman wrote: > >On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Martin v.Loewis wrote: > >[...] > > > >I believe that it should take a flag argument to specify whether it should > >be returned locked or unlocked. This would be consistent with vget() and > >might make it possible to clean up the weird locking code in VOP_LOOKUP. > > I agree with what Doug is saying here, but I should point out that making > this kind of change right now might not be a very good idea. It will make us > quite incompatible with filesystem work being done by Kirk McKusick and other > people, not to mention opening the door for a significant number of new bugs > and instability. > This type of change really needs to be agreed upon be a larger set of > people (outside of the FreeBSD group) before being done. I don't want to give anyone the impression that I was suggesting unilateral change in the VFS system. I totally agree with David that maintaining a consistent interface between the various strains 4.4BSD can only be a good thing. In fact, I imagine that Kirk is probably addressing some of these issues right now, since he appears to be doing filesystem work at the moment. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939
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