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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
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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