From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:36:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010803203612.I31468@emma1.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0108030507330F.00440@starship> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108022312211.1494-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108022312211.1494-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Thu, 02 Aug 2001, 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.
Applications usually protect their playgrounds - separate uid for
instance. If only the application has access to that area, and itself
does not trigger races, "at any given moment" is not a restriction.
--
Matthias Andree
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-03 18:37 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
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 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2001-08-03 19:16 ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread 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
[not found] <0108030354130E.00440@starship>
[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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