Date: 25 Oct 1998 16:32:28 +0100 From: Love <lha@e.kth.se> To: Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se> Cc: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, kom-arla@stacken.kth.se Subject: Re: deadfs in FreeBSD 3.0/current ? Message-ID: <amogr04pyr.fsf@zinfandel.e.kth.se> In-Reply-To: Bjoern Groenvall's message of 25 Oct 1998 16:27:25 %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981025202548.1224A-100000@sv01.cet.co.jp> <amiuh867zl.fsf@zinfandel.e.kth.se> <wu1znwr7aa.fsf@bg.sics.se>
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Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se> writes: > Love <lha@e.kth.se> writes: > > > Should we bake our own dead_vnodeops_p that is really dead vnodes ? > > In the evil old days when I wrote xfs; dead vnodes was only used to be > able to unmount xfs when there was no user space daemon running. Is it > still required to have a root vnode to be able to unmount? If not, you > no longer need that hack, it's enough to have xfs_root fail. unmount() still does a lookup on the name and expects there to be no errors and the vnodes it gets back to be a VROOT. So dead vnodes are still needed. Love To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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