Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:20:53 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c Message-ID: <20011002142053.L59854@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <11806.1002044186@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:36:26PM %2B0200 References: <200110021733.f92HXwI58562@earth.backplane.com> <11806.1002044186@critter.freebsd.dk>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [011002 12:37] wrote: > In message <200110021733.f92HXwI58562@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > > > We can't switch around which one the syscall locks (lock the source > > instead of the destination) without changing the VOP_RENAME api. > > Well, we can change the API, just not the semantics... Before we go off into hysterics, one solution I heard from Alexander Viro was to just serialize all rename operations on the filesystem using a lock in the superblock. It sucks, but at least it's correct. I hope this is relevant. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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