From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jan 3 12: 0: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E677F14D34; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA08461; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:59:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:59:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200001031959.LAA08461@apollo.backplane.com> To: Guido van Rooij Cc: Peter Wemm , Hidetoshi Shimokawa , vsilyaev@mindspring.com, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, dbutter@wireless.net Subject: Re: VMware: Questions... References: <20000103192903.AEF531CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20000103205143.A44784@gvr.gvr.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :> that marked a vnode as unlinked in the filesystems and the syncer then took :> special care to avoid msyncing them. Mine would have caught the case where :> a file was mmaped first then unlinked and kept open. If the syncer could : :Which is better then mine. :... Well, yes and no. I'd rather not get *too* fancy because, if this catches on, programs will start using the new flag anyway and we will be left with a lot of cruft in the kernel source that nobody uses any more. :I just committed my patch. If you think yours is better, feel free to back mine :out. : :-Guido -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message