Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck Message-ID: <200104170141.f3H1ft887670@earth.backplane.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010405001328.24669L-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200104162353.QAA55416@beastie.mckusick.com> <20010416181708.P976@fw.wintelcom.net>
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:> the /dev filesystem cannot handle advisory file locks, so some serious
:> work would be needed there first. If only background fsck is considered
:> to be an issue, then an flock could be held on the mount point directory.
:> This latter approach seems half baked to me, so I am not inclined to do it.
:
:Actually Terry Lambert has some really old patches that make flock on
:just about any vnode backed fd work.
:
:Do we want this? I think I can re-forward-port his delta to achieve this.
:
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:-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
It makes sense. I think Linux does this and it definitely seems useful.
Anyone know about Solaris?
-Matt
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