From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christophe Saout Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:36:10 +0200 Message-ID: <1093552570.13881.41.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> References: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040826191323.GY21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826203228.GZ21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-93ZxXzE7cHUjN/kDvYMF" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk In-Reply-To: <20040826203228.GZ21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --=-93ZxXzE7cHUjN/kDvYMF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 21:32 +0100 schrieb : > Argh... OK, now I remember why I went for -EBUSY for unlink() (we obviou= sly > are not bound by SuS on that one). Consider the following scenario: > * local file foo got something else bound on it for a while > * we are tight on space - time to clean up > * oh, look - contents of foo is junk > * rm foo > * ... oh, fuck, there goes the underlying file. Right. Good thinking. You can't delete a directory while there regular files in it either. Another question: /mnt/test is a mountpoint. Why can I rename `mnt' but can't rename `test'? --=-93ZxXzE7cHUjN/kDvYMF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBLkm6ZCYBcts5dM0RApvcAKCMxROH+ugJZw6LlUMzRKlSInpwkQCfQg1I KW/2Ax+hEGewrv+vJCSoCKs= =F9+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-93ZxXzE7cHUjN/kDvYMF--