In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes:
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>:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes:
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>:>:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
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>:>:>I thought vnodes were in stable storage?
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>:>:They are, that's the point Matt is not seeing yet.
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>:> I know vnodes are in stable storage. I'm just saying that NFS
>:> is the least of your worries in trying to change that.
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>:The namecache can do without the use of soft references.
>:
>:The only reason vnodes are stable storage any more is that NFS
>:uses soft references to vnodes.
>
> The only place I see soft references on vnode is in the NFS
> lookup code which duplicates the VFS lookup code (except gets it wrong).
> If you are refering to the nqlease code... that looks like a hard
> reference to me. I'm not even sure why they bother to check v_id.
> The vp reference from an nfsnode is a hard reference.
>
Well, if that's the case, yank all uses of v_id from the nfs code,
I'll do the namecache and vnodes can be deleted to the joy of our users...
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