Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:18:10 +0200 |
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> > If a network filesystem protocol can't handle operations (be it data > > or metadata) on an unlinked file, we must do sillirenaming, so that > > the file is not actually unlinked. > > Or not support such a broken protocol at all.
Wonder what people would say if we removed support for NFSv[23].
Just because a protocol does not support "perfect" UNIX semantics, it doesn't mean it's broken. By that standard almost all network filesystem protocols are severely broken.
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