Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:02:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: Rashim Gupta <guptar@cs.rpi.edu>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnodes (UFS journaling)? Message-ID: <3D52EA8C.EB3C94A5@mindspring.com> References: <20020808213242.72797.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com>
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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? They are using a file. He said so right in his second sentence which you are quoting, above. I've already pointed them to source code to do what they need. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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