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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

           reply	other threads:[~2006-04-25 14:04 UTC|newest]

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