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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:43:54 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r187894 - head/sys/ufs/ffs
Message-ID:  <200901291343.55485.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090129181523.GA2471@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <200901291647.n0TGlFHZ058776@svn.freebsd.org> <200901291209.14313.jhb@freebsd.org> <20090129181523.GA2471@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Thursday 29 January 2009 1:15:23 pm Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:09:13PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:47:15 am Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> > > Author: trasz
> > > Date: Thu Jan 29 16:47:15 2009
> > > New Revision: 187894
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187894
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Make sure the cdev doesn't go away while the filesystem is still 
mounted.
> > >   Otherwise dev2udev() could return garbage.
> > >   
> > >   Reviewed by:	kib
> > >   Approved by:	rwatson (mentor)
> > >   Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
> > 
> > Is this applicable to all filesystems?  I'm curious why the VREF() on the 
> > vnode associated with the cdev entry (um_devvp) is not sufficient to 
prevent 
> > this?  I would have thought that the vnode would have held a reference on 
the 
> > cdev.
> 
> The point of this commit is that devvp vnode may be reclaimed.

So do all filesystems need this change then?

-- 
John Baldwin



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