Re: device vnodes, and structural confusion

2013-06-21 Thread Mindaugas Rasiukevicius
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote: In the short term, to reduce the confusion I would like to make the following changes: 1. Rename v_mount, which is the filesystem the vnode is on (almost always / for device vnodes), to v_myfs. It is a massive churn for a questionable

Re: device vnodes, and structural confusion

2013-06-17 Thread J. Hannken-Illjes
On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:02 AM, David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote: As has come up many times in the past, we have a long-standing problem, or family of problems, where in the course of operating on a particular file system we end up not calling the file system's own vnode or fs

device vnodes, and structural confusion

2013-06-16 Thread David Holland
As has come up many times in the past, we have a long-standing problem, or family of problems, where in the course of operating on a particular file system we end up not calling the file system's own vnode or fs operations, but the root file system's operations. This causes varying degrees of