Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:58:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu> To: <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, <fs@freebsd.org>, Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu> Subject: Re: vnodes (UFS journaling)? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0208081757160.2252-100000@go.cs.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020808213242.72797.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com>
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Although as of now we are writing it into a log file on the filesystem, however it should also work for a device On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu> wrote: > > we are trying to implement a logging facility for the File System. Hence > > we need to open the log file and keep its vnode open throughout the > > duration while the system is mounted. Hence, we cannot free the vnode > > after searching for it using the root file system since we need to access > > it later on. However, if we do not > > return the vnode, then doing an "ls -al" in the dirctory where the log > > file is present hangs the kernel. > > Just wondering, are you planning to use a device, or just a file on a > filesystem for doing the logging? > > -- Hiten Pandya > -- hiten at uk dot freebsd dot org > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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