Yeah, but what does it mean? [Was: Re: File trees: the deeper, the weirder]

[Eric Anderson]

On 10/29/06 13:34, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:51 -0800, freebsd at bitfreak.org wrote:
>> What does vnlru stand for?  VNode List Recycling Unit?  Someone please 
>> tell me.  I lost Deep Thought's email address, so I'm a bit stuck.
> 
> I wasn't in on the naming, but I'll bet it stands for something along
> the lines of VNode Least Recently Used.


Yep, that's what it means.

vn* is commonly used in the kernel for vnodes, and an 'lru' is commonly 
known for a 'least recently used' sort of list.

Eric



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