Re: [PATCH 2/2] fat (exportfs): reconnect file handles to evicted inodes/dentries

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Jul 09 2012 - 09:43:20 EST


"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> How do you prevent to modify or free the those inode/blocks from other
>> path? Yeah, it is racy. And if races is not solved, that's simply wrong
>> and not solution.
>>
>> Although I'm not thinking deeply about NFS support on FAT. Just a idea,
>> the one of possible solutions would be register it to hash, and find it
>> on all path. So, all path will use same inode and lock.
>>
>> We need the key, possible key is - if it is only directory, FAT may be
>> able to use i_start as additional search key.
>
> Interesting idea. I think this, and reformulating the FAT NFS file
> handle to include the parent's i_ino, will greatly simplify (and speed
> up) the code.

Does it work even if the inode was rename()'ed?
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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