Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266341AbUIFJDI (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 05:03:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267668AbUIFJDI (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 05:03:08 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:39337 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266341AbUIFJDA (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 05:03:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:58:19 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Spam Cc: John Stoffel , David Masover , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Frank van Maarseveen , Dave Kleikamp , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , Christoph Hellwig , fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives Message-ID: <20040906085819.GE28697@thundrix.ch> References: <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> <1094160994.31499.19.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> <20040902220027.GD23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <4137B5F5.8000402@slaphack.com> <16696.30683.207905.803165@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <112181186.20040903160117@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <112181186.20040903160117@tnonline.net> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 47 --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Salut, On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:01:17PM +0200, Spam wrote: > >> mount -t tarfs /some/place/on/disk/foo.tar.gz /mnt/tar > >> cp /var/tmp/img.gif . > >> umount /mnt/tar >=20 > > Oops! Someone did a rm /some/place/on/disk/foo.tar.gz between steps > > one and two. Now what happens? Please define those semantics... >=20 > Uhm, can you delete a file (loop) that is mounted? "Text file busy" But for files this isn't true. Currently, we have another method assuring data coherency: we remove the inode only when the last reference goes away. Tonnerre --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBPCar/4bL7ovhw40RAqtyAKCAFsbtNLGylo3gxPXoX5COOmLCxwCfU5+Z hi8K34PIZbAzmL9Lr/EACGU= =2KZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe-- - 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/