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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 2002 04:35:50 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: openafs question
Message-ID:  <20021128123550.GM16066@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211281128.gASBS2g04424@monica.cs.rpi.edu>
References:  <200211281128.gASBS2g04424@monica.cs.rpi.edu>

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* David E. Cross <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> [021128 03:28] wrote:
> I've been working on the FreeBSD-OpenAFS port, and I seem to be down to
> one last bug; I know what it is, I am just having trouble getting the 
> solution to it.
> 
> First a quick description of what the code is doing... It maintains its 
> own set of vnodes, outside of the system pool, which it populates with
> data (these are NEVER gotten with getnewvnode(9)).  The problem arises 
> when one of these is used, and then free'd.  The system decides to insert
> it into the global vnode cache and use it for things like UFS.  This is
> bad for 2 reasons:

Have getnewvnode add a flag to the vnode noting that it's meant for the
global list, otherwise store a "free()" callback in the vnode to be called?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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