On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:29 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

>> On Sep 20, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Andrew Doran wrote:
>>
>>> The reverse mapping makes me uncomfortable. For MP the namecache
>>> needs to be
>>> simple because it's one item of shared state that gets hammered on.
>>> Is it
>>> possible to get the path at exec time?
>>
>> I've been thinking of rewriting the name cache.  The changes I have  
>> in
>> mind would allow you to always get the path for a file.
>>
>> -- thorpej
>
> are you going to make it a layer upper than vnodeops,
> like dragonfly and linux?

Yes, it would be above the vnode ops.

(Sorry for the delay -- I was on vacation and far enough from  
civilization that EDGE didn't work.)

-- thorpej