From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:09:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106122304190.942-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15142.55093.846398.117560@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
> Call fat_iget(i_location).
> If this finds something, check i_logstart.
> If it matches, assume SUCCESS.
>
> Then comes the tricky bit: read the directory entry
> indicated by i_location, check the i_logstart is right,
> if it is, try to get it into the inode cache properly.
Uh-huh. Suppose that directory had been removed and space had been
reused by a regular file. Which had been filled with the right
contents. It's really not hard to do. Now, remove that file and
you've got a nice data corruption waiting to happen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 1:52 is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs? John Covici
2001-06-13 3:00 ` Neil Brown
2001-06-13 3:09 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-06-13 3:41 ` Neil Brown
2001-06-15 1:43 ` is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs? - YES! Neil Brown
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