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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: How to handle non-local renames?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:20:45 +0100
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:31:59AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> Furthermore, it would upset a lot of people to change the current
> behaviour which does support remote rename, and has supported it for the
> past 10 years at least. I'd therefore prefer to go for a workaround that
> addresses the problem of the deadlocks instead of the useful
> functionality.

OK...  I'll look into your variant again when I get some sleep - I'm
afraid that there are remaining holes, but right now I'm not in any
condition to verify that (or prove that there's none)...  Later tonight...