Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/22][RFC] Unionfs: Common file operations | From | Shaya Potter <> | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:36:01 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:20 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Race! You cannot open an underlying NFS file by name after it has been > looked up: you have no guarantee that it hasn't been renamed.
In a unionfs case that's not an issue. Nothing else is allowed to use the backing store (i.e. the nfs fs) while unionfs is using it, so there shouldn't be a renaming issue.
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