Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:25:50 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: RFC - tree quotas for Linux (2.4.12, ext2) |
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Hi! > > > But how do you solve the following: mv <dir> <some_other_dir> > > The parent changes. You need to go through all the subdirs of <dir> and change > > the TID. This is really hard to get right and to avoid deadlocks > > and races... At least it seems to me so. > > Provided you are tracking the total size in each directory, it's just a > matter of subtracting dir's size from the old parent, and adding it to the > new parent. (With suitable checks beforehand to avoid a result which > exceeds quota.)
And what about hardlinks? Pavel -- STOP THE WAR! Someone killed innocent Americans. That does not give U.S. right to kill people in Afganistan.
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