On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:57 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:36 -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > > 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. > > How are you enforcing that on the server? If I formatted a partition on a san w/ ext3, who would enforce that only one machine has access to it at a time? the administrator of the file system. -- 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
