[OpenAFS-devel] RE: [OpenAFS] Strange Behavior of Openafs-1.1 .1

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:17:55 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> I just took another look over fs.h and osi_vfs.h and I'm confused...
> 
> What fields are the extra data that AFS is adding? Looks to me like struct
> vnode_t is 100% identical to the existing struct inode, with the exception
> that the fs-specific union appears to be alot smaller in the vnode_t one. 

That's essentially correct.  The problem is that the union is quite large,
so there's a lot of overhead to including that extra space in every vnode.

-- Jeff