On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> Al Viro,
>
> I got to the bottom of the problems reported by Steve Hirsch relative to
> building Linux from an NWFS root volume. I am not doing an explicit
> iget() on the new inode and the Linux VFS is corrupting kernel memory
> when it gets back the renamed inode.
Huh? Is it about 2.0, 2.2 or 2.4? What explicit iget()?
> I have a question here. In rename() is it always assumed that the
> target must do a read_inode() via iget() after the file is mv'd? What
> about the case where you are simply renaming a file in the same
> directory? Is it always the case that rename will remove the old inode
> and substitute the new one even if you are just renaming a file in the
> same directory? This is the case causing all the problems.
Inode or directory entry? If the target exists you _must_ remove the old
one, indeed.
> A description of just how rename() is **SUPPOSED** to work would help.
Erm... Depends on the version. How about some context?
<horrible suspicion>
Are you, by chance, using directory entry location as inumber?
</horrible suspicion>
> The Linux rename() semantics are somewhat confusing -- last bug and NWFS
> will run as a root filesystem in Linux and we can ship our Linux
> Distribution. I fixed the bamp() bugs reported at the same time, so the
> page cache is now working and apps run ok. Runs very fast too....
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