Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 1999 06:29:00 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [CFT] rename patch + FAT patches |
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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Tom Holroyd wrote:
> OK, this report is for 2.2.5 + rename-patch-10 + fat-patch-7 > AlphaPC164, egcs 1.1.2 > > mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > 1. chown now always returns EPERM, while chmod reports success but fails.
Hmm... I'll look at it. [snip]
> So it seems that vfat is maybe overzealous in locking buffers?
Maybe... One possible source may be fat_get_entry() usage (much more active now than it was in the old version). And fat_get_entry() does a lot of unnecessary buffer cache activity. I'll try to clean it up. Something is definitely wrong with buffer cache handling. Sometimes unlinked files linger for a while. Thanks, Al
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