On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 05:50:50PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Further, are the two ops then essentially done atomically?
No. They are processed (at least in Samba) as two separate
requests and can be raced by local or other remote access.
So just compounding them would leave us in the same situation we are in now -
which would be fine.
What do you think about the idea of having the server see a specifically
arranged compounded pair and turn them into an op that can't otherwise be
represented in the protocol?
Complex, ugly code. How long does the server wait
for the second operation before proceeding with
the first ?
Or is it better to try and get the protocol extended?
If this is a Linux -> Linux op, we have a protocol
space (the SMB3+POSIX) we can extend without having
to go via Microsoft. But this would need to be very carefully designed.
