Subject: Re: how to bring a mounted filesystem to an almost clean state?
To: Christian Limpach <chris@pin.lu>
From: Stephan Uphoff <ups@stups.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/15/2003 12:12:58 
Christian Limpach wrote:
> but ffs_sync goes through the mnt_vnodelist and locks the vnodes one after 
> another.  Does this work because it always only locks 1 vnode at a time [...]

Yes

> [...] and would it deadlock if it would keep the vnodes locked until it finishes?

Yes