From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 12:04:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11723 for current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11716 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA11737; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:00:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608051900.MAA11737@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NFS Diskless Dispare... To: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:00:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, tony@fit.qut.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Aug 5, 96 11:10:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.