approach on getting nullfs to work again

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Feb 9 14:58:11 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:38:30PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     The idea being that instead of having nullfs fake-up
>     vnodes (like it does in FreeBSD) we instead have it return the *actual*
>     vnode and only fake-up the namecache topology.

I think we still have to create "fake" vnodes because we have to catch
and certain VOPs in the nullfs directly instead of passing them to the
parent. One important issue is fstatfs, but the directory operations
have similiar needs.

Joerg





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