Hi, On Fri, 23 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Semi-concrete: link(2) locks the target's parent and the source. > Cross-directory rename(2) locks both parents. If link's target is a > file which has children, this can result in an ABBA deadlock. That's > _before_ the filesystem's ->link() or ->rename() function is called. I'm afraid you have to be more concrete than this. hfsplus_file_inode_operations doesn't have a link or rename operation, so if one your source parents above involves a file, it shouldn't get this far or you have to describe your scenario in more detail. bye, Roman -- 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
