Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:00:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, tony@fit.qut.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Diskless Dispare... Message-ID: <199608051900.MAA11737@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960805110745.10082A-100000@minnow.render.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Aug 5, 96 11:10:00 am
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> But surely, even if you find a vnode from the same filesystem, you still > need to 'clean' it, i.e. invalidate buffers and re-associate with a > different inode+dev/filehandle/whatever. I don't see what the gain for > per-fs vnode pools is. I expect Terry will explain it to me now :-) See previous message. 8-). Basically, it gets rid of the case of valid buffers in core being unreclaimable because of the inode/vnode disassociation for the vclean interface to work. The vclean interface is an abomination before Dennis Ritchie (8^)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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