Matthew Dillon wrote:
  Log:
  Detect the case where rename()ing over a file that has been unlinked but
  is still open was reporting an inode hash collision instead of a fatal
  error.  msdosfs uses the position of the directory entry within the directory
  to identify the inode and a new file cannot be created if the removed file
  is still held open by a program.

But isn't that only an implementation issue?  As long as you keep the "first sector" and 
"size" information in memory, you can drop the directory entry.  I might be wrong, 
however.

cheers
 simon

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