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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: replace() system call needed (was Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:52:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401205201.GI17808@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090401000657.GH15063@mit.edu>

On Tue 2009-03-31 20:06:57, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:27:33PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > This can be done using implicit logic:
> > 
> > ->E.g. on close(), mark inodes without being sync()ed as poisoned.
> > (I can think of more sophisticated logic, but ...)
> > ->On completing the inode with the delayed allocations, unpoison it.
> > ->Don't commit rename()s if the corresponding inode is poisoned.
> 
> Send us patches if you think it's that easy to do what you are
> proposing.   I assure it's not easy.

Well, implementing replace() syscall would be quite easy. Would you
want such a patch?
									Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-03-31 21:27       ` replace() system call needed (was Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS) Bodo Eggert
2009-04-01  0:06         ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-01 20:52           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-04-01 22:58             ` Bodo Eggert
2009-03-27 12:48 EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 12:26 ` replace() system call needed (was Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS) Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 12:42   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 12:50     ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:00       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 13:02         ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:07           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 13:22             ` Andreas T.Auer
2009-03-29 13:55               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 13:40             ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:57               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 14:00                 ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-30 17:19       ` Ric Wheeler
2009-03-30 22:11         ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:01     ` Andreas T.Auer
2009-03-29 13:06       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-30 15:58   ` Diego Calleja

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