Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 14:13:00 +0200 From: Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de> To: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for Cluster Recommendations Message-ID: <40714D4C.5060207@nentec.de> References: <002401c419e7$76692ac0$2f01a8c0@MICHAELIWZHLNY> <20040404103346.76151.qmail@web41501.mail.yahoo.com> <987274454.20040404124312@buz.ch> <40711AB9.6010602@nentec.de> <20040405211409.F644@guckloch.zuhause>
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Hi Peter, >Propably it was me, a German in Melbourne;-) > > I didn't want to cause any perhaps "undue" attention, but since you spoke up ;-) Yes it was your suggestions that I am referring to. >>One of the main delays was that the kern_getcwd() functionality >>in 5.0 (and 5.2) is wholly unreliable. I had to incorporate a separate >>version to make it work correctly. Normally I hate such hacks, but >>it seems that the vfs_cache method that was used was not appearing >>to be 100% accurate (at least in the kernel). Many times when I >>would try to get a full filename I got errors (path component not >>a directory) when I passed a vnode of a file in to get the path name. >>In a file replication scheme--this is not acceptable. >> >> > >I'm curious to see.. It's in the vnode layer so I assume it's filesystem >independent? > > That is correct. Gabriel suggested that somebody might do some sort of journaling thing with it. Now it is easier. Andy
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