VOP_INACTIVE(9): reclaiming space for open but deleted files?

Fri Mar 15 15:16:19 UTC 2019

Inactive is called when the last “open” goes away.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 7:46 AM Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

> VOP_INACTIVE(9) says that the vop can "be used to reclaim space for
> ‘open but deleted’ files".  What does that mean?  How can you reclaim
> space for open files?  I assume it's just a mistake, but I want to
> check before I fix the man page.  SVN archaeology shows that the line
> has been present since a mass import of man pages in 1997.
> -Alan
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