svn commit: r187894 - head/sys/ufs/ffs

[Kostik Belousov]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:09:13PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:47:15 am Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Thu Jan 29 16:47:15 2009
> > New Revision: 187894
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187894
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Make sure the cdev doesn't go away while the filesystem is still mounted.
> >   Otherwise dev2udev() could return garbage.
> >   
> >   Reviewed by:	kib
> >   Approved by:	rwatson (mentor)
> >   Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
> 
> Is this applicable to all filesystems?  I'm curious why the VREF() on the 
> vnode associated with the cdev entry (um_devvp) is not sufficient to prevent 
> this?  I would have thought that the vnode would have held a reference on the 
> cdev.

The point of this commit is that devvp vnode may be reclaimed.
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