From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Mackay <dave.mackay@monitoreurope.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS (2) - File locking
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:12:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21677.995292731@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD62F9B6A488D31192A900105CAB276627DF35@ETI01>
dave.mackay@monitoreurope.com said:
> Currently on Ext2 our program uses the system call lockf() which
> works well, however we read with interest that JFFS does not support
> hard links and may have a problem with this call!!? Any comments?
File locking doesn't involve the underlying filesystem, I believe - at
least not for non-networked file systems. File locking on JFFS and JFFS2
should just work.
Hard links are a completely separate issue. JFFS doesn't support them.
JFFS2 does.
--
dwmw2
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2001-07-16 14:02 JFFS (2) - File locking David Mackay
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