On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:20 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Race! You cannot open an underlying NFS file by name after it has been > looked up: you have no guarantee that it hasn't been renamed. In a unionfs case that's not an issue. Nothing else is allowed to use the backing store (i.e. the nfs fs) while unionfs is using it, so there shouldn't be a renaming issue. -- VGER BF report: H 0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html