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Re: tstile syndrome



David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 09:55:58AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
>  > Yet another reason take vnode locking to the dump, cue objection
>  > from Holland.
> 
> I still don't see why you think this is going to magically fix
> everything.

Why add word "magically"? BSD vnode locks demonstrated that they fall in
many issues inode locking (e.g. SVR4 style locking). IIRC, at least few more
engineers, good engineers, agreed about vnode locks in the past, on tech-kern.

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