[linux-cifs-client] hardlink patch series
Steve French
smfrench at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 20:55:09 GMT 2009
I have been reviewing Jeff's series of (large) patches for hardlink
fixup. The only problem I have noticed so far is the rename error
path - we have cached inode information which could have stale inode
numbers for source and target (they could be up to 1 second old) so we
may incorrectly think that source and target are different inodes in
the EEXIST case (Jeff removed the logic which checks if source/target
inode numbers are the same on EEXIST). It may not matter to current
Samba (more recent POSIX extensions) but still trying to check that
...
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Thanks,
Steve
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