From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 05:23:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0108040523220P.01827@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010803104920.I437@thune.mrc-home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010803104920.I437@thune.mrc-home.com>
On Friday 03 August 2001 19:49, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:09:06PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On Friday 03 August 2001 05:13, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > > There is only one chain of directories from the fd's dentry up to
> > > > the root, that's the one to sync.
> > >
> > > You forgot ".. at any given moment". IOW, operation you propose is
> > > inherently racy. You want to do that - you do that in userland.
> >
> > Are you saying that there may not be a ".." some of the time? Or just
> > that it may spontaneously be relinked? If it does spontaneously change
> > it doesn't matter, you have still made sure there is access by at least
> > one path.
>
> I read the ".." as a typo for "..." As in Al was suggesting the sentence
> should read "There is only one chain of directories at any given moment
> from the fd's dentry up to the root...."
Heh, after some practice you get good at decoding Alspeak, it's not harder
than MIX.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-04 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <0108030507330F.00440@starship>
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108022312211.1494-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2001-08-03 13:09 ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 14:43 ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-03 17:49 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-04 3:23 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-08-03 18:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 18:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 18:53 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 20:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 3:43 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-03 22:01 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 22:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 3:53 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 5:48 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 22:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:09 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:20 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:25 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:35 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:41 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:53 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 7:45 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchange patch) Hans Reiser
2001-08-04 18:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 1:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-08 17:22 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchangepatch) Hans Reiser
2001-08-03 23:42 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Alan Cox
2001-08-03 23:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 1:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04 1:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 1:45 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04 4:04 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 18:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 12:15 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-05 12:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 13:02 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-08-04 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-05 7:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-09 13:25 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 17:35 ` Jan Harkes
2001-08-04 18:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 15:02 ` Chris Mason
2001-08-06 20:48 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 22:29 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-03 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 15:23 ` looking for resources for designing loopback filesystem dave-mlist
2001-08-06 16:11 ` Ville Herva
2001-08-03 18:36 ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 19:16 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 3:40 ` fdatasync(2) is also there (was: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread) Matthias Andree
2001-08-05 0:28 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-03 20:25 intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Sam James
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[not found] ` <200108030207.f7326OpR003086@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
2001-08-03 18:34 ` Matthias Andree
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-26 7:34 ext3-2.4-0.9.4 Andrew Morton
2001-08-01 16:02 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.4 Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-08-02 9:03 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.4 Matthias Andree
2001-08-02 17:26 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.4 Daniel Phillips
2001-08-02 17:37 ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Matthias Andree
2001-08-02 18:35 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-02 18:47 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-02 22:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-02 23:11 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20010803025916.053e2ec0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
2001-08-03 9:16 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20010803002501.00ada0e0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <20010803021406.A9845@emma1.emma.line.org>
2001-08-03 16:20 ` Jan Harkes
2001-08-03 22:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-02 19:47 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2001-08-03 18:22 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108030051070.1703-100000@fogarty.jakma.org>
[not found] ` <20010803021642.B9845@emma1.emma.line.org>
2001-08-03 7:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-03 8:39 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 9:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-04 7:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-03 8:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-08-03 18:28 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 8:50 ` David Weinehall
2001-08-03 18:31 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 19:59 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-08-03 19:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
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