From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
marcelo@conectiva.com.br, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:01:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16101.8150.408526.624242@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030609134655.A10940@google.com>
>>>>> " " == Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:40:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust
> wrote:
>> If people prefer 'rm -rf' correctness instead of
>> unlinked-but-open, then we could do that by changing the
>> behaviour of 'unlink' on a silly-deleted filed. Currently it
>> returns EBUSY, but we could just as well have it complete the
>> unlink, and mark the inode as being stale...
> Actually, *currently* it unlinks. :-) That's the problem.
No. The problem is that it aliases the dentry, and so it unlinks
incorrectly...
Cheers,
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-09 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-03 23:54 nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch Frank Cusack
2003-06-04 14:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-04 21:20 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-04 21:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-09 13:51 ` [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch) Frank Cusack
2003-06-09 13:55 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-09 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-09 16:40 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-09 20:46 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-10 0:01 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2003-06-11 0:54 ` viro
2003-06-11 1:28 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-11 1:47 ` viro
2003-06-11 2:32 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-11 2:37 ` viro
2003-06-11 1:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-11 2:27 ` viro
2003-06-11 2:43 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-11 2:50 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-11 3:00 ` viro
2003-06-11 7:22 ` [PATCH] NFS sillyrename fixes (was: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race) Frank Cusack
2003-06-13 0:19 ` [PATCH] NFS sillyrename fixes take 3 Frank Cusack
2003-06-11 3:00 ` [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch) Trond Myklebust
2003-06-11 5:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-11 6:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-06-11 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-11 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-11 16:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-11 16:34 ` viro
2003-06-11 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 17:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-11 17:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-12 21:59 ` Jan Harkes
[not found] ` <16103.29804.198545.680701@charged.uio.no>
2003-06-11 22:24 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-11 23:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-11 23:35 ` [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race Frank Cusack
2003-06-05 9:11 ` nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch Adrian Cox
2003-06-05 9:13 ` Russell King
2003-06-05 13:51 ` Trond Myklebust
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