Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:33:08 -0500 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: fsync on large files |
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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > mkdir a > mkdir b > mkdir a/c > ln a/c b/c > mkdir a/c/d > mv b a/c/d > > If you have a way to deal with that... BTW, I strongly suspect > that any solution involving scanning potential ancestors is *not* good - > you can construct very unpleasant DoS that way.
You might be able to get away with having a list of parents structure on multiply linked directories, which would have to be mirrored in dcache.
-- Raul
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