Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:13:45 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> There is only one chain of directories from the fd's dentry up to the
> root, that's the one to sync.

You forgot ".. at any given moment". IOW, operation you propose is inherently
racy. You want to do that - you do that in userland.

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