der Mouse wrote:
> I have a question about vnodes and uniqueness: is it an error to have
> two distinct vnodes that refer to the same entity?  I've been looking

Yes.

> through various filesystem lookup routines and I can't see anything
> that prevents it, but I can also see some interesting failure modes
> looming if (for example) looking up .. twice returns different vnodes,
> even if they both refer to the same filesystem entity.
> 
> For example, kernfs_lookup calls getnewvnode() for every lookup (aside
> from ., and .. which it should never be asked to handle).  Is this

This definitely looks broken. Send-pr?

Jaromir
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