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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:56:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>
To:        <nate@yogotech.com>, Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>
Cc:        Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is mkdir guaranteed to be 'atomic' ?? 
Message-ID:  <200102262156.NAA39209@akira.lanfear.com>

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> -----------------------------
> From:  Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>

> > >Are there filesystem type cases where this might not be the case 
> > >(NFS being my main concern ....)
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Yes.  NFS doesn't guarantee atomicity, because it can't.  If the
mkdir
> call returns, you have no guarantee that the remote directory has
been
> created (caching, errors, etc...)

    I can handle it if there is a case where both fail, but is there a
case where both can SUCCEED ?? 

    marc.


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