Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261948AbUJ1TFC (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:05:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262017AbUJ1TFC (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:05:02 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:47792 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261980AbUJ1TAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:00:44 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: readdir loses renamed files Organization: Deban GNU/Linux Homesite In-Reply-To: <20041028170642.GA8220@thunk.org> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.6-20040906 ("Baleshare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.8.1 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:00:42 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 16 In article <20041028170642.GA8220@thunk.org> you wrote: > But directory sizes are unlimited --- they could conceivably be > hundreds of megabytes, and so it's not reasonable to require the > kernel to do the snapshot using unpageable kernel memory. Well, I guess that what COW or Versioning is for. Another option would be a optimistic locking readdir alternative (or usage of fam-like events in addition). Gruss Bernd - 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/