From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mschwid2@de.ibm.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] s390: Hypervisor File System
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:04:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145973854.11508.7.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145637630.6884.7.camel@localhost>
Hi Martin,
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:38 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > The update-on-write to special file thing seems bit strange to me. What
> > if two processes ask for it at the same time?
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:40 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Yes, we had that discussion as well. Any sensible suggestion how to do
> it in a more clever way would be greatly appreciated. We haven't found
> something better so far.
The only way I can think of is via s_ops->remount_fs. That's bit safer
anyway, as sb->s_lock protects us from concurrent updates. I am cc'ing
fsdevel to see if they can come up with a better suggestion.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 11:35 [PATCH/RFC] s390: Hypervisor File System Michael Holzheu
2006-04-21 11:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-21 13:56 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-21 14:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-21 15:31 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-21 13:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-21 14:08 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-21 15:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-21 16:40 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-04-25 14:04 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2006-04-21 14:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-21 14:59 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-21 15:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-21 15:18 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-21 15:36 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-21 15:46 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-21 22:30 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-24 17:17 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-24 19:57 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-25 6:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-24 17:19 ` Michael Holzheu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-24 17:19 Michael Holzheu
2006-04-25 6:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-25 7:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-25 7:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-25 8:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-25 8:52 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-25 9:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-25 12:22 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-04-25 14:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-25 14:45 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-26 9:30 ` Michael Holzheu
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