Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:28:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:28:02 -0400 Received: from chac.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.19.54]:38664 "EHLO chac.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:27:53 -0400 Message-Id: <200107230202.f6N228NG016619@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> To: landley@webofficenow.com cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS Client patch In-Reply-To: Message from Rob Landley of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 11:15:07 -0400." <01072211150706.08013@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:02:07 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Rob Landley said: > On Thursday 19 July 2001 14:24, Pavel Machek wrote: [...] > > > No, if the file was removed, it still tells you where to start your > > > search. A missing filename is just as good a marker as a present one. > > And if new file is created with same name? > The same thing that happens as if a new file was inserted BEFORE your > cursor, in the part of the directory you've already looked at. You > ignore it. Who says that if I've got files A, B, C, D, and delete B, and create a new B, whatever underlying directory structure there is will place it where the old B was? It might reuse holes before A... -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - 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/