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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mszeredi@suse.cz, hch@lst.de,
	mark.fasheh@oracle.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
	zach.brown@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [patch 01/12] vfs: fix vfs_rename_dir for FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:00:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws5gz0a0.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0908062053560.26876@cobra.newdream.net> (Sage Weil's message of "Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:05:17 -0700 (PDT)")

Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> writes:

> FWIW, the originally proposed fix only rehashed on error, but Miklos was 
> worried the rehash (under any circumstances) looked racy and/or bogus.  
> And Al was just worried.  See
>
> 	http://marc.info/?t=121580579500004&r=1&w=2
> and
> 	http://marc.info/?t=121664078900004&r=1&w=2
>
> The last word from Al (about this time last year :) was
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Al Viro wrote:
>> I'm still not convinced that this is right.  Let me finish review of the
>> current situation with dcache and rehashing, please.  We definitely have
>> problems in that area; the question is how to deal with all that crap
>> without breaking exportfs *and* secondary roots a-la NFS ;-/

Thanks for pointer. I see.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-06 23:10 [patch 01/12] vfs: fix vfs_rename_dir for FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems akpm
2009-08-07  1:36 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-08-07  4:05   ` Sage Weil
2009-08-07  5:00     ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]

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