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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@digidescorp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fat (exportfs): reconnect file handles to evicted inodes/dentries
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:43:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjd1nj7s.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341835422.2215.6.camel@iscandar.digidescorp.com> (Steven J. Magnani's message of "Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:03:42 -0500")

"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@digidescorp.com> writes:

>> How do you prevent to modify or free the those inode/blocks from other
>> path?  Yeah, it is racy. And if races is not solved, that's simply wrong
>> and not solution.
>> 
>> Although I'm not thinking deeply about NFS support on FAT. Just a idea,
>> the one of possible solutions would be register it to hash, and find it
>> on all path. So, all path will use same inode and lock.
>> 
>> We need the key, possible key is - if it is only directory, FAT may be
>> able to use i_start as additional search key.
>
> Interesting idea. I think this, and reformulating the FAT NFS file
> handle to include the parent's i_ino, will greatly simplify (and speed
> up) the code.

Does it work even if the inode was rename()'ed?
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03 19:09 [PATCH 0/2] fat (exportfs): fix NFS file handle decode Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-03 19:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] fat (exportfs): drop ineffective get_parent code Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-04 10:30   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-03 19:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] fat (exportfs): reconnect file handles to evicted inodes/dentries Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-04 11:07   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-04 18:03     ` Steve Magnani
2012-07-05  3:59       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-05 20:03         ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-06 20:33     ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-06 21:07       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-07  1:16         ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-07  6:03           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-07 16:41             ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-07 17:00               ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-09 12:03                 ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 13:43                   ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2012-07-09 14:47                     ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 16:10                       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-09 16:27                         ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 17:09                           ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 17:23                             ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 19:10                             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-09 20:26                               ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 21:34                                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-07-09 22:03                                   ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-07-09 22:17                                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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