Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268270AbUIBMG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:06:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268269AbUIBMGp (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:06:45 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:398 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268270AbUIBMFy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:05:54 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Alan Cox To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Jeremy Allison , Jamie Lokier , Trond Myklebust , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, Linus Torvalds , reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, Linux Filesystem Development , Linux Kernel Mailing List , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200409021313.11063.oliver@neukum.org> References: <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.com> <1094118524.4842.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200409021313.11063.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094122912.4970.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:01:54 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 20 On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 12:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 11:48 schrieb Alan Cox: > > What I don't understand is the tie between Linux having such streams and > > Windows doing it for Samba to work. Netatalk has always handle this for > > Macintosh and portably. Presumably any Samba support would need to > > handle OS's without wacky files for portability too ? > > Can you do an atomic rename of all streams without kernel support? That depends how SAMBA chooses to handle the problem internally and how it chooses to store the data. The netatalk people have atomicity from the view of clients but not from the unix fs internal view. Alan - 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/