Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: readdir loses renamed files | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:00:42 +0200 |
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In article <20041028170642.GA8220@thunk.org> you wrote: > But directory sizes are unlimited --- they could conceivably be > hundreds of megabytes, and so it's not reasonable to require the > kernel to do the snapshot using unpageable kernel memory.
Well, I guess that what COW or Versioning is for. Another option would be a optimistic locking readdir alternative (or usage of fam-like events in addition).
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