Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >>>Yeah, it should mostly work just fine, but I'm betting there are some >>>paths which will need a manual re-check as things may have changed out >>>from under the VFS while we weren't holding a cluster lock. It should >>>be easy enough to check things like the immutable flag in those places >>>though. >> >>might be, I already wondered why things like >>mark_inode_dirty() do not work with ocfs2, >>IMHO the vfs/ocfs2 synchronization is broken >>(to some degree) but maybe that is intentional > > Yeah, it's difficult to get the VFS to "cluster lock" without affecting the > runtime of other file systems, so we have to work within that constraint :/
Please don't be shy about asking. Can you describe the mark_inode_dirty issue? Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
