Re: readdir loses renamed files

[Hans Reiser]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > > > It should be possible to perform an atomic readdir if that is what you
> > > > want to do and if you have space in your process to stuff the result.
> > > >        
> > > How much would it cost to always append the new name into the directory rather
> > > than modifying it in place?
> > >      
> > Forgive me, what does the sentence above mean?  Paste it out of order?
> >    
>
> As I have read from earlier replies, ext2/3 replaces a filename with the new
> one, given that it is the same length or shorter, and especially that might
> skip a while when readdir()ing.
> So I was concerned about the speed impact which would arise, if the filename
> was never modified in-place but always appended as a new object to the
> end-of-directory.
>
>
>
> Jan Engelhardt
>  
The api is fundamentally broken.  Sorry.   Will try to avoid making that 
mistake in sys_reiser4.
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