2007/456 Vnode Specific Data

[james wahlig]

Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

>On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 08:48 -0600, Rob Gittins wrote:
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>>Hi Jim,
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>>Would it be possible to extend vsd_create to take a key as well as 
>>create and return a key?  This way a FS can have predefined key values 
>>for specific data elements.  This might simplify the usage in some cases.
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>as I understand it, this mechanism is intended to permit subsystems
>other than filesystems to tag vnodes with subsystem-specific data.
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>if you were to do this, how would you preassign key values across all
>filesystems so they don't collide?
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>					- Bill
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Thank you, a much shorter and easier to parse answer than mine.

jim