Answer: Vnodes + Question: jfs,vfs ( was: Vnodes )

Answer: Vnodes + Question: jfs,vfs ( was: Vnodes )

Post by Steven D. Majews » Fri, 19 Feb 1993 02:01:02




>I'm looking for some papers discussing the implementation of filesystems
>using Vnodes.

>/Jeff

Try:
        ftp.sage.usenix.org:/pub/USENIX/summer86/vnode.ps.Z
Which is a copy of:
 S.R.Kleinman (SMI), Vnodes: An Architecture for Multiple File System Types
        in Sun UNIX
     ( also, in the summer85 directory is another Sun paper by
                Russell Sandberg on NFS implementation. )

*NOW*!  my turn:

Does anybody know of any papers discussing IBM AIX's "jfs" and "vfs" ?
( journaling filesystem & virtual filesystem )

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1. vfs-recycling vnodes

Looking at the code of vclean() routine, I don't quite understand why
is "v_usecount" at the beginning incremented? By increasing it, then
counter never seems to drop to one, which would cause a complete
vnode recycling in vrele() routine (called later in the vclean() code)?
The comment in the code for bumping "v_usecount" says, that it has to do
with some race conditions? Does anybody know, what race
conditions are implied?

thanks.

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