Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:49:02 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49 |
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Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 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.
We fixed this one a year ago:)... > * 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]
Alexei will audit for the rest; review cannot hurt.
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