From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Josef Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22][RFC] Unionfs: Common file operations
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:57:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157151440.5628.42.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157150161.4398.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:36 -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:20 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > Race! You cannot open an underlying NFS file by name after it has been
> > looked up: you have no guarantee that it hasn't been renamed.
>
> In a unionfs case that's not an issue. Nothing else is allowed to use
> the backing store (i.e. the nfs fs) while unionfs is using it, so there
> shouldn't be a renaming issue.
How are you enforcing that on the server?
--
VGER BF report: H 2.77556e-16
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-01 1:35 [PATCH 00/22][RFC] Unionfs: Stackable Namespace Unification Filesystem Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 1:37 ` [PATCH 01/22][RFC] Unionfs: Documentation Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 7:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:39 ` [PATCH 02/22][RFC] Unionfs: Kconfig and Makefile Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 12:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 15:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-01 1:40 ` [PATCH 03/22][RFC] Unionfs: Branch management functionality Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 11:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-09-01 1:41 ` [PATCH 04/22][RFC] Unionfs: Common file operations Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 12:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 22:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-01 22:36 ` Shaya Potter
2006-09-01 22:57 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-09-03 1:03 ` Shaya Potter
2006-09-02 2:47 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-03 4:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-01 1:42 ` [PATCH 05/22][RFC] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 6:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-04 9:25 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 10:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-16 22:13 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-16 22:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-17 1:28 ` Shaya Potter
2006-09-01 1:44 ` [PATCH 06/22][RFC] Unionfs: Dentry operations Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 07/22][RFC] Unionfs: Directory file operations Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:47 ` [PATCH 08/22][RFC] Unionfs: Directory manipulation helper functions Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-04 7:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-01 1:48 ` [PATCH 09/22][RFC] Unionfs: File operations Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 3:02 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 7:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:49 ` [PATCH 10/22][RFC] Unionfs: Inode operations Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:50 ` [PATCH 11/22][RFC] Unionfs: Lookup helper functions Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:51 ` [PATCH 12/22][RFC] Unionfs: Main module functions Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:53 ` [PATCH 00/22][RFC] Unionfs: Stackable Namespace Unification Filesystem Stephen Rothwell
2006-09-01 17:23 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-03 17:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-03 19:44 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 11:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-09-04 11:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-09-04 23:34 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 1:53 ` [PATCH 13/22][RFC] Unionfs: Readdir state Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:54 ` [PATCH 14/22][RFC] Unionfs: Rename Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 1:55 ` [PATCH 15/22][RFC] Unionfs: Privileged operations workqueue Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:56 ` [PATCH 16/22][RFC] Unionfs: Handling of stale inodes Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 1:58 ` [PATCH 17/22][RFC] Unionfs: Miscellaneous helper functions Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 1:58 ` [PATCH 18/22][RFC] Unionfs: Superblock operations Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-04 8:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-09-04 8:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-09-01 1:59 ` [PATCH 19/22][RFC] Unionfs: Helper macros/inlines Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 2:01 ` [PATCH 20/22][RFC] Unionfs: Internal include file Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-01 2:01 ` [PATCH 21/22][RFC] Unionfs: Unlink Josef Sipek
2006-09-01 2:02 ` [PATCH 22/22][RFC] Unionfs: Include file Josef Sipek
2006-09-04 7:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-03 11:05 ` [PATCH 00/22][RFC] Unionfs: Stackable Namespace Unification Filesystem Pavel Machek
2006-09-04 12:57 ` Jörn Engel
2006-09-05 4:46 ` Al Boldi
2006-09-05 4:46 ` Al Boldi
2006-09-05 7:01 ` Jörn Engel
2006-09-05 7:01 ` Jörn Engel
2006-09-04 13:28 ` Shaya Potter
2006-09-04 20:33 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-04 21:43 ` Shaya Potter
2006-09-04 23:31 ` Josef Sipek
2006-09-05 6:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-05 13:02 ` Shaya Potter
2006-09-05 3:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 3:28 ` Shaya Potter
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