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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: v01i002:  Kernel configuration files, version 2, Part01/01
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.042542.22582@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 91 04:25:42 GMT
References: <1348@galaxia.Newport.RI.US> <1991Feb16.053842.23496@quest.UUCP>
Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1991Feb16.053842.23496@quest.UUCP> ssb@quest.UUCP (Scott Bertilson) writes:
>  For what it's worth, the kernel on the 3b1 has an inode table, not
>a true cache...in the sense that entries are only valid as long as
>some process is still using that inode.
		.
		.
>  I would be delighted to find out I'm wrong, but I've
>checked it very carefully.

Just to confirm Scott's observations, I've also found that the in core inode
entries are flushed when the last process to have the file open performs a
close.
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Mark Dapoz	mdapoz%hybrid@cs.toronto.edu	mdapoz@torvm3.iinus1.ibm.com

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