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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: patch #3 (was Re: bleh. Re: ufs_rename panic)
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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.
> > 
> 
> -- 
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