Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:32:39 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49 |
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"Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote: > > Chris Mason wrote: > > Hans, I think Alexander has told us exactly what he wants done. He wants > > us to audit our entire VFS interface, and make sure that we are dealing > > with boundary conditions, special cases, and normal cases the same way the > > existing linux filesystems are.
Al, is Minix maintained? Minix is a tiny filesystem, and it might be simpler for the reiserfs developers if they could mimic Minix instead of ext2.
> Hello ! > > I could not find new bugs. > > [...] > > Reiserfs-3-6-1 for linux-2.3.51 are stable.
The problem is not stability, Al is afraid of intentional attacks again the filesystem:
e.g multiple thread try to * create a file, create a directory with the same name. * unlink a directory, and create an entry in that directory. * open a file with O_TRUNC, and another thread writes to the file, perhaps O_APPEND ... [I'm no expert of the VFS, so I don't know which races are possible]
normal stress tests are unable to find such bugs.
[But I didn't read you patch]
-- Manfred
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