Hmm, I somehow thought that the discussion about this was closed
with conclusion that the added memory requirements for every vnode
are not really worth the added functionality.

Or do I recall incorrectly?

Jaromir

YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	yamt
> Date:		Wed Jul 30 12:09:48 UTC 2003
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/kern: kern_sysctl.c vfs_cache.c vfs_subr.c
> 	src/sys/sys: namei.h vnode.h
> 
> Log Message:
> maintain the list of namecaches attached to the vnode.
> it makes vnodes freeable.
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -r1.138 -r1.139 src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c
> cvs rdiff -r1.45 -r1.46 src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c
> cvs rdiff -r1.201 -r1.202 src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c
> cvs rdiff -r1.30 -r1.31 src/sys/sys/namei.h
> cvs rdiff -r1.113 -r1.114 src/sys/sys/vnode.h
> 
> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> copyright notices on the relevant files.
> 

-- 
Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.cz/
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