Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:20:20 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 03 September 2002 17:44, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > > Scenario: > > > I have a driver which accesses a "disk" at the block level, to which > > > another driver on another machine is also writing. I want to have > > > an arbitrary FS on this device which can be read from and written to > > > from both kernels, and I want support at the block level for this idea. > > > > You cannot have an arbitrary fs. The two fs drivers must coordinate with > > each other in order for your scheme to work. Just think about if the two > > fs drivers work on the same file simultaneously and both start growing the > > file at the same time. All hell would break lose. > > Thanks! > > Rik also mentioned that objection! That's good. You both "only" see > the same problem, so there can't be many more like it..
(intentionally misinterpreting) No indeed, there are aren't many problems like it, in terms of sheer complexity.
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