Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christophe Saout
2004-08-26T20:36:10Z

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Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 21:32 +0100 schrieb :

> Argh... OK, now I remember why I went for -EBUSY for unlink() (we obviously
> 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'?

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