Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261939AbTFIUd3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:33:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261969AbTFIUd2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:33:28 -0400 Received: from 216-239-45-4.google.com ([216.239.45.4]:11780 "EHLO 216-239-45-4.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261939AbTFIUdZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:33:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:46:55 -0700 From: Frank Cusack To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Linus Torvalds , marcelo@conectiva.com.br, lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch) Message-ID: <20030609134655.A10940@google.com> References: <20030609065141.A9781@google.com> <16100.47243.421268.704120@charged.uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <16100.47243.421268.704120@charged.uio.no>; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:40:43PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 14 On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:40:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > If people prefer 'rm -rf' correctness instead of unlinked-but-open, > then we could do that by changing the behaviour of 'unlink' on a > silly-deleted filed. Currently it returns EBUSY, but we could just as > well have it complete the unlink, and mark the inode as being stale... Actually, *currently* it unlinks. :-) That's the problem. /fc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/