Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264955AbTGHLRz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:17:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265043AbTGHLRe (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:17:34 -0400 Received: from tmi.comex.ru ([217.10.33.92]:1925 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267192AbTGHLOu (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:14:50 -0400 X-Comment-To: Matthew Wilcox To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alex Tomas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] parallel directory operations From: bzzz@tmi.comex.ru Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:29:07 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20030708112658.GJ23597@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:26:58 +0100") Message-ID: <87llv9ujek.fsf@gw.home.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) References: <87wuetukpa.fsf@gw.home.net> <20030708112658.GJ23597@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 18 >>>>> Matthew Wilcox (MW) writes: MW> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:01:05PM +0000, Alex Tomas wrote: >> I would to like to see any comments/suggestions. >> dynamic locks. supports exclusive and shared locks. exclusive lock may >> be taken several times by first owner. MW> Yuck. It spins, it sleeps, it can be acquired recursively by the same MW> process. Ugly stuff. it allows to simplify rename case very much - 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/