Re: [PATCH 04/22][RFC] Unionfs: Common file operations

Trond Myklebust
2006-09-01T22:57:33Z

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:36 -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:20 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > Race! You cannot open an underlying NFS file by name after it has been
> > looked up: you have no guarantee that it hasn't been renamed.
>
> In a unionfs case that's not an issue. Nothing else is allowed to use
> the backing store (i.e. the nfs fs) while unionfs is using it, so there
> shouldn't be a renaming issue.

How are you enforcing that on the server?

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