Subject: Re: nullfs still doesn't reclaim space (PR#15555)
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/13/2003 10:00:36
"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Simon Burge wrote:
>
> > > Anyways, will someone look at enami's patch and PR #15555?
> > >
> > > You can see some discussion also in the March 2002 tech-kern mailing
> > > lists: "mount_mfs (with mount_null) won't reclaim space" and "CVS commit:
> > > syssrc/sys/miscfs/nullfs".
> >
> > I think that thread shows that enami's proposed patch doesn't fix this
> > problem. Someone needs to implement Bill's vnode upcall mechanism.
>
> It may not fix it properly. But it works for me for 1.5.x. -- I use it a
> lot.
Interesting.. I tried it on my laptop with NetBSD-current and don't
think I saw any change in behaviour :( I don't have the laptop right
now so I can't double-check this.
Simon.
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