Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: eugene@infospace.com Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com, Ken Pizzini <kenp@infospace.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch #3 (was Re: bleh. Re: ufs_rename panic) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0110191520270.16027-100000@onyx> In-Reply-To: <3BD05DCA.F8F4D8B3@infospace.com>
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Thanks. I run the mklink.sh script on FreeBSD 4.3, it simply rejects by saying "head: l0: File name too long". So I guess it does not even reach the kernel yet. -Zhihui On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Yevgeniy Aleynikov wrote: > > FYI: > > http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=221337&start=2001-10-15&end=2001-10-21 > > (about how things done in Linux). > > > Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > (1) I am always wondering why not use a global rename lock so that there > > is only one rename operation in progress at any time. This method is > > used by GFS and probably Linux. This could make the code simply. Maybe > > we can even get rid of the relookup() stuff. > > > > This may reduce concurrency, but rename should not be a frequent > > operation. > > > > -- > Yevgeniy Aleynikov > Infospace, Inc. > SysAdmin, USE > Work: (206)357-4594 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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