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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:43:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys vnode.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020425234247.64976u-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020426034852.GC3579@FreeBSD.ORG>

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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, J. Mallett wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:39:04PM -0700, Robert Watson wrote:
> > rwatson     2002/04/25 20:39:04 PDT
> >   
> >           The new devfs doesn't support VFS locking.  So don't do locking
> >           assertions for devfs vnodes.
> >   
> >           With this change, a kernel with options DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS actually
> >           gets to single-user mode.
> >   
> 
> Thanks for tracking this down!
> 
> Are we sure all the other filesystems listed as supporting it really do?

No.  And we're also not sure all unlisted filesystems don't support it.
Scott Long suggests that UDF likely does support it, so I'll enable
locking assertions for UDF and see what happens.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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