From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: readdir loses renamed files
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:11:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4183E775.3090701@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0410292326300.8389@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>Matthias is right. readdir is badly architected, and no one has fixed
>>it for ~30 years.
>>
>>
>
>As long as M$ windows has the same problem, it's justified that we have that
>problem for 30 years now.
>
>
>
>>It should be possible to perform an atomic readdir if that is what you
>>want to do and if you have space in your process to stuff the result.
>>
>>
>
>How much would it cost to always append the new name into the directory rather
>than modifying it in place?
>
Forgive me, what does the sentence above mean? Paste it out of order?
Better to fix the API.
> OTOH, especially Reiserfs does not use linear file
>lists, so it would get tricky.
>
>
>
>
>
We use sorted directories.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-30 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 1:21 Timo Sirainen
2004-10-25 8:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-10-25 12:35 ` Timo Sirainen
2004-10-25 12:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-25 12:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-25 13:22 ` Timo Sirainen
2004-10-28 9:34 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-28 11:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-10-28 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-28 15:41 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-29 21:15 ` Hans Reiser
2004-10-29 21:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-30 19:11 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-10-31 6:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 5:38 ` Hans Reiser
2004-10-28 17:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-28 19:00 ` Bernd Eckenfels
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4183E775.3090701@namesys.com \
--to=reiser@namesys.com \
--cc=adilger@clusterfs.com \
--cc=jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tss@iki.fi \
--cc=tytso@mit.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome