On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:26, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:31:32PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > 64-bit inode numbers space is not yet implemented on Linux --- the problem
> > is that if you return ino >= 2^32, programs compiled without
> > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BIT
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:42, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I guess that is the way to go. samefile(path1, path2) is unfortunately
> inherently racy.
Not a problem in practice. You don't expect cp -a
to reliably copy a tree which something else is modifying
at the same time.
Thus we assume that the
On Thursday 28 December 2006 10:06, Benny Halevy wrote:
> Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >>> If user (or script) doesn't specify that flag, it doesn't help. I think
> >>> the best solution for these filesystems would be either to add new syscall
> >>> int is_hardlink(char *filename1, char *filename2)
>
Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>>
50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly
design problem to me.
>>> 4 billion files, each with more than on
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:04:14PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> I agree that the way the client implements its cache is out of the protocol
>> scope. But how do you interpret "correct behavior" in section 4.2.1?
>> "Clients MUST use filehandle comparisons only to improve
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>
> Yes but "cp -rl" is typically done by _developers_ and they tend to
> have a better understanding of this (uh, at least within linux context
> I hope so).
>
> Also, just adding hard-links doesn't increase the number of inodes.
No, but it increa
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> > > 50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly
> > > design problem to me.
> >
> > 4 billion files, each with more than one link is pretty far fet
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > 50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly
> > design problem to me.
>
> 4 billion files, each with more than one link is pretty far fetched.
> And anyway, filesystems can take steps to prevent collisions, as the
> > You mean POSIX compliance is impossible? So what? It is possible to
> > implement an approximation that is _at least_ as good as samefile().
> > One really dumb way is to set st_ino to the 'struct inode' pointer for
> > example. That will sure as hell fit into 64bits and will give a
> > uniq
Hello!
> You mean POSIX compliance is impossible? So what? It is possible to
> implement an approximation that is _at least_ as good as samefile().
> One really dumb way is to set st_ino to the 'struct inode' pointer for
> example. That will sure as hell fit into 64bits and will give a
> unique
> > There's really no point trying to push for such an inferior interface
> > when the problems which samefile is trying to address are purely
> > theoretical.
>
> Oh yes, there is. st_ino is powerful, *but impossible to implement*
> on many filesystems.
You mean POSIX compliance is impossible?
Hi!
> > >> No one guarantees you sane result of tar or cp -a while changing the
> > >> tree.
> > >> I don't see how is_samefile() could make it worse.
> > >
> > > There are several cases where changing the tree doesn't affect the
> > > correctness of the tar or cp -a result. In some of these cas
On Fri 2007-01-05 16:15:41, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > And does it matter? If you rename a file, tar might skip it no matter of
> > > hardlink detection (if readdir races with rename, you can read none of
> > > the
> > > names of file, one or both --- all these are possible).
> > >
> > > If yo
> >> No one guarantees you sane result of tar or cp -a while changing the tree.
> >> I don't see how is_samefile() could make it worse.
> >
> > There are several cases where changing the tree doesn't affect the
> > correctness of the tar or cp -a result. In some of these cases using
> > samefile()
Currently, large file support is already necessary to handle dvd and
video. It's also useful for images for virtualization. So the failing
stat()
calls should already be a thing of the past with modern distributions.
As long as glibc compiles by default with 32-bit ino_t, the problem exists
and
And does it matter? If you rename a file, tar might skip it no matter of
hardlink detection (if readdir races with rename, you can read none of the
names of file, one or both --- all these are possible).
If you have "dir1/a" hardlinked to "dir1/b" and while tar runs you delete
both "a" and "b" an
Ven
> Subject: Re: [nfsv4] RE: Finding hardlinks
>
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:04:14PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> > I agree that the way the client implements its cache is out of the protocol
> > scope. But how do you interpret "correct behavior" in section 4.2
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Well, sort of. Samefile without keeping fds open doesn't have any
>> > protection against the tree changing underneath between first
>> > registering a file and later opening it. The inode number is more
>>
>> You only need to keep one-file-per-har
Miklos Szeredi; nfsv4@ietf.org;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Mikulas Patocka;
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; Jeff Layton; Arjan van de Ven
Subject: Re: [nfsv4] RE: Finding hardlinks
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:28 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Exactly where do you
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:43:22AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > > High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
> > > > > computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
> > > > > numbers ;)
> > > >
> > > > Some of us have machines designed to cope wi
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:04:14PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> I agree that the way the client implements its cache is out of the protocol
> scope. But how do you interpret "correct behavior" in section 4.2.1?
> "Clients MUST use filehandle comparisons only to improve performance, not
> for corr
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:40 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> What I don't understand is why getting the fileid is so hard -- always
> GETATTR when you GETFH and you'll be fine. I'm guessing that's not as
> difficult as it is to maintain a hash table of fileids.
You've been sleeping in class. We a
> > And does it matter? If you rename a file, tar might skip it no matter of
> > hardlink detection (if readdir races with rename, you can read none of the
> > names of file, one or both --- all these are possible).
> >
> > If you have "dir1/a" hardlinked to "dir1/b" and while tar runs you delet
> And does it matter? If you rename a file, tar might skip it no matter of
> hardlink detection (if readdir races with rename, you can read none of the
> names of file, one or both --- all these are possible).
>
> If you have "dir1/a" hardlinked to "dir1/b" and while tar runs you delete
> both
Well, sort of. Samefile without keeping fds open doesn't have any
protection against the tree changing underneath between first
registering a file and later opening it. The inode number is more
You only need to keep one-file-per-hardlink-group open during final
verification, checking that inod
> > Well, sort of. Samefile without keeping fds open doesn't have any
> > protection against the tree changing underneath between first
> > registering a file and later opening it. The inode number is more
>
> You only need to keep one-file-per-hardlink-group open during final
> verification, ch
Hi!
> > > > Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be
> > > > unimpressed with a decrease in reliability.
> > >
> > > With the suggested samefile() interface you'd get a failure with just
> > > about 100% reliability for any application which needs to compare a
> >
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:28 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Exactly where do you see us violating the close-to-open cache
> > consistency guarantees?
> >
>
> I haven't seen that. What I did see is cache inconsistency when opening
> the same file with different file descrip
> > > > High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
> > > > computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
> > > > numbers ;)
> > >
> > > Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be
> > > unimpressed with a decrease in reliabil
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:04 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> I agree that the way the client implements its cache is out of the protocol
>> scope. But how do you interpret "correct behavior" in section 4.2.1?
>> "Clients MUST use filehandle comparisons only to improve perform
Hi!
> > > High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
> > > computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
> > > numbers ;)
> >
> > Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be
> > unimpressed with a decrease in reliability.
>
Mikulas Patocka writes:
> > > BTW. How does ReiserFS find that a given inode number (or object ID in
> > > ReiserFS terminology) is free before assigning it to new file/directory?
> >
> > reiserfs v3 has an extent map of free object identifiers in
> > super-block.
>
> Inode free space can h
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:04 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> I agree that the way the client implements its cache is out of the protocol
> scope. But how do you interpret "correct behavior" in section 4.2.1?
> "Clients MUST use filehandle comparisons only to improve performance, not
> for correct beh
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:35 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> I sincerely expect you or anybody else for this matter to try to provide
>> feedback and object to the protocol specification in case they disagree
>> with it (or think it's ambiguous or self contradicting) rather t
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:35 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> I sincerely expect you or anybody else for this matter to try to provide
> feedback and object to the protocol specification in case they disagree
> with it (or think it's ambiguous or self contradicting) rather than ignoring
> it and impleme
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:35 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> Believe it or not, but server companies like Panasas try to follow the
> standard
> when designing and implementing their products while relying on client vendors
> to do the same.
I personally have never given a rats arse about "standards"
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:43:20AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> >Currently, large file support is already necessary to handle dvd and
> >video. It's also useful for images for virtualization. So the failing
> >stat()
> >calls should already be a
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:09:41PM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote:
On any decent filesystem st_ino should uniquely identify an object and
reliably provide hardlink information. The UNIX world has relied upon
this
for decades. A filesystem with st_
Hi!
> >Sure it is. Numerous popular POSIX filesystems do that. There is a lot of
> >inode number space in 64 bit (of course it is a matter of time for it to
> >jump to 128 bit and more)
>
> If the filesystem was designed by someone not from Unix world (FAT, SMB,
> ...), then not. And users still
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:09:41PM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> >On any decent filesystem st_ino should uniquely identify an object and
> >reliably provide hardlink information. The UNIX world has relied upon
> this
> >for decades. A filesystem with st_ino collisions without being hardlinked
>
>On any decent filesystem st_ino should uniquely identify an object and
>reliably provide hardlink information. The UNIX world has relied upon
this
>for decades. A filesystem with st_ino collisions without being hardlinked
>(or the other way around) needs a fix.
But for at least the last of those
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:31:32PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I didn't hardlink directories, I just patched stat, lstat and fstat to
> always return st_ino == 0 --- and I've seen those failures. These
> failures
> are going to happen on non-POSIX filesystems in real world too,
I didn't hardlink directories, I just patched stat, lstat and fstat to
always return st_ino == 0 --- and I've seen those failures. These failures
are going to happen on non-POSIX filesystems in real world too, very
rarely.
I don't want to spoil your day but testing with st_ino==0 is a bad choice
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:04:06AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >>
> >>I didn't hardlink directories, I just patched stat, lstat and fstat to
> >>always return st_ino == 0
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:04:06AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
I didn't hardlink directories, I just patched stat, lstat and fstat to
always return st_ino == 0 --- and I've seen those failures. These failures
are going to happen on non-POSIX
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:04:06AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> I didn't hardlink directories, I just patched stat, lstat and fstat to
> always return st_ino == 0 --- and I've seen those failures. These failures
> are going to happen on non-POSIX filesystems in real world too, very
> rarel
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
numbers ;)
Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be
unimpressed with a decrease in re
> > High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
> > computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
> > numbers ;)
>
> Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be
> unimpressed with a decrease in reliability.
With the suggested
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
> computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
> numbers ;)
Some of us have machines designed to cope with cosmic rays, and would be
unimpressed
Hello!
> High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your
> computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode
> numbers ;)
No.
If you assign 64-bit inode numbers randomly, 2^32 of them are sufficient
to generate a collision with probability around 50%.
Hi!
> > > > > the use of a good hash function. The chance of an accidental
> > > > > collision is infinitesimally small. For a set of
> > > > >
> > > > > 100 files: 0.03%
> > > > >1,000,000 files: 0.03%
> > > >
> > > > I do not think we want to play with probabili
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:25 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
>> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:07 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> BTW. how does (or how should?) NFS client deal with cache coherency if
> filehandles fo
> > > > the use of a good hash function. The chance of an accidental
> > > > collision is infinitesimally small. For a set of
> > > >
> > > > 100 files: 0.03%
> > > >1,000,000 files: 0.03%
> > >
> > > I do not think we want to play with probability like this. I mea
Hi!
> > > the use of a good hash function. The chance of an accidental
> > > collision is infinitesimally small. For a set of
> > >
> > > 100 files: 0.03%
> > >1,000,000 files: 0.03%
> >
> > I do not think we want to play with probability like this. I mean...
> >
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 02:04 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the
kernel at all (i.e
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:19 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> Even for NFSv3 (that doesn't have the unique_handles attribute I think
> that the linux nfs client can do a better job. If you'd have a filehandle
> cache that points at inodes you could maintain a many to one relationship
> from multiple
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:25 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:07 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> > > Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> > > >BTW. how does (or how should?) NFS client deal with cache coherency if
> > > >filehandles for the same file di
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:19 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:12 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> >
> > > As an example, some file systems encode hint information into the
> > > filehandle
> > > and the hints may change over time, another example
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 02:04 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >> Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the
> >> kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)?
> >>
Certainly, but tar isn't going to remember all the inode numbers.
Even if you solve the storage requirements (not impossible) it would
have to do (4e9^2)/2=8e18 comparisons, which computers don't have
enough CPU power just yet.
It is remembering all inode numbers with nlink > 1 and many other to
> > Certainly, but tar isn't going to remember all the inode numbers.
> > Even if you solve the storage requirements (not impossible) it would
> > have to do (4e9^2)/2=8e18 comparisons, which computers don't have
> > enough CPU power just yet.
>
> It is remembering all inode numbers with nlink > 1
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
hold water for modern file systems
are you really sure?
Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids.
and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead
Hmm, sometimes you can't fix
> > > >> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
> > > >> hold water for modern file systems
> > > >
> > > > are you really sure?
> > >
> > > Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids.
> > >
> > > > and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead
> > >
> > > Hmm, so
Hi!
> > >> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
> > >> hold water for modern file systems
> > >
> > > are you really sure?
> >
> > Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids.
> >
> > > and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead
> >
> > Hmm, sometimes you can
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Jan Harkes wrote:
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:47:06PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Anyway, cp -a is not the only application that wants to do hardlink
detection.
I tested programs for ino_t collision (I intentionally injected it) and
found that CP from coreutils 6.7 fails
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:47:06PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >Anyway, cp -a is not the only application that wants to do hardlink
> >detection.
>
> I tested programs for ino_t collision (I intentionally injected it) and
> found that CP from coreutils 6.7 fails to copy directories but displa
> BTW. How does ReiserFS find that a given inode number (or object ID in
> ReiserFS terminology) is free before assigning it to new file/directory?
reiserfs v3 has an extent map of free object identifiers in
super-block.
Inode free space can have at most 2^31 extents --- if inode numbers
alter
Mikulas Patocka writes:
[...]
>
> BTW. How does ReiserFS find that a given inode number (or object ID in
> ReiserFS terminology) is free before assigning it to new file/directory?
reiserfs v3 has an extent map of free object identifiers in
super-block. reiser4 used 64 bit object identifiers
> The question is: why does the kernel contain iget5 function that looks up
> according to callback, if the filesystem cannot have more than 64-bit
> inode identifier?
Generally speaking, file system might have two different identifiers for
files:
- one that makes it easy to tell whether two fil
Hi!
If user (or script) doesn't specify that flag, it
doesn't help. I think
the best solution for these filesystems would be
either to add new syscall
int is_hardlink(char *filename1, char *filename2)
(but I know adding syscall bloat may be objectionable)
it's also the wrong api; the f
Hi!
> >>If user (or script) doesn't specify that flag, it
> >>doesn't help. I think
> >>the best solution for these filesystems would be
> >>either to add new syscall
> >>int is_hardlink(char *filename1, char *filename2)
> >>(but I know adding syscall bloat may be objectionable)
> >
> >it's
Mikulas Patocka writes:
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >> Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the
> >> kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)?
> >>
> >> It's reasonable t
Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:07 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> > Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> > >BTW. how does (or how should?) NFS client deal with cache coherency if
> > >filehandles for the same file differ?
> > >
> >
> > Trond can probably answer this better than me...
Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:12 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
>
> > As an example, some file systems encode hint information into the filehandle
> > and the hints may change over time, another example is encoding parent
> > information into the filehandle and then handles rep
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Al Viro wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
I don't see any problems with changing struct kstat. There would be
reservations against changing inode.i_ino though.
So filesystems that have 64bit inodes will need a specialized
getattr() met
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the
kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)?
It's reasonable to have either no support for colliding ino_t or full
support
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the
> kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)?
>
> It's reasonable to have either no support for colliding ino_t or full
> support for that (including syscalls that user
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:07 -0500, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >BTW. how does (or how should?) NFS client deal with cache coherency if
> >filehandles for the same file differ?
> >
>
> Trond can probably answer this better than me...
> As I read it, currently the nfs client ma
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:12 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> As an example, some file systems encode hint information into the filehandle
> and the hints may change over time, another example is encoding parent
> information into the filehandle and then handles representing hard links
> to the same fi
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
>>> This sounds like a bug to me. It seems like we should have a one to one
>>> correspondence of filehandle -> inode. In what situations would this not be
>>> the
>>> case?
>>
>> Well, the NFS protocol allows that [see rfc1813, p. 21: "If two file handles
>> from
>> the
> >> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
> >> hold water for modern file systems
> >
> > are you really sure?
>
> Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids.
>
> > and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead
>
> Hmm, sometimes you can't fix the world, especia
This sounds like a bug to me. It seems like we should have a one to one
correspondence of filehandle -> inode. In what situations would this not be the
case?
Well, the NFS protocol allows that [see rfc1813, p. 21: "If two file handles
from
the same server are equal, they must refer to the same
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
hold water for modern file systems
are you really sure?
and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead, rather than adding racy
syscalls and such that just can't really be used right...
Why don't you r
On Dec 28 2006 10:54, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should qualify that statement. A lot of filesystems don't have
> permanent i_ino values (mostly pseudo filesystems -- pipefs, sockfs, /proc
> stuff, etc). For those, the idea is to try to make sure we use 32 bit values
> for them and to ensure
Benny Halevy wrote:
Jeff Layton wrote:
Benny Halevy wrote:
It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
hold water for modern file systems and that creates real problems for
backup apps which rely on that to detect hard links.
Why not? Granted, many of the filesystems in the Linux kernel do
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
>> hold water for modern file systems
>
> are you really sure?
Well Jan's example was of Coda that uses 128-bit internal file ids.
> and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead
Hmm, sometimes you can't fix the world, esp
Jeff Layton wrote:
> Benny Halevy wrote:
>> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
>> hold water for modern file systems and that creates real problems for
>> backup apps which rely on that to detect hard links.
>>
>
> Why not? Granted, many of the filesystems in the Linux kernel don't e
Benny Halevy wrote:
It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
hold water for modern file systems and that creates real problems for
backup apps which rely on that to detect hard links.
Why not? Granted, many of the filesystems in the Linux kernel don't enforce that
they have unique st_
> It seems like the posix idea of unique doesn't
> hold water for modern file systems
are you really sure?
and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead, rather than adding racy
syscalls and such that just can't really be used right...
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Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>>> If user (or script) doesn't specify that flag, it doesn't help. I think
>>> the best solution for these filesystems would be either to add new syscall
>>> int is_hardlink(char *filename1, char *filename2)
>>> (but I know adding syscall bloat may be objectionable)
>> i
If user (or script) doesn't specify that flag, it doesn't help. I think
the best solution for these filesystems would be either to add new syscall
int is_hardlink(char *filename1, char *filename2)
(but I know adding syscall bloat may be objectionable)
it's also the wrong api; the filenam
>
> If user (or script) doesn't specify that flag, it doesn't help. I think
> the best solution for these filesystems would be either to add new syscall
> int is_hardlink(char *filename1, char *filename2)
> (but I know adding syscall bloat may be objectionable)
it's also the wrong api; th
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:49:42AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Jan Harkes wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:44:42PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >>The stat64.st_ino field is 64bit, so AFAICS you'd only need to extend
> >>the kstat.ino field to 64bit and fix those files
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Jan Harkes wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:44:42PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
The stat64.st_ino field is 64bit, so AFAICS you'd only need to extend
the kstat.ino field to 64bit and fix those filesystems to fill in
kstat correctly.
Coda actually uses 128-bit file ident
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:44:42PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> The stat64.st_ino field is 64bit, so AFAICS you'd only need to extend
> the kstat.ino field to 64bit and fix those filesystems to fill in
> kstat correctly.
Coda actually uses 128-bit file identifiers internally, so 64-bits
really d
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Al Viro wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
I don't see any problems with changing struct kstat. There would be
reservations against changing inode.i_ino though.
So filesystems that have 64bit inodes will need a specialized
getattr() m
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I don't see any problems with changing struct kstat. There would be
> reservations against changing inode.i_ino though.
>
> So filesystems that have 64bit inodes will need a specialized
> getattr() method instead of generic_fillatt
> >> I've came across this problem: how can a userspace program (such as for
> >> example "cp -a") tell that two files form a hardlink? Comparing inode
> >> number will break on filesystems that can have more than 2^32 files (NFS3,
> >> OCFS, SpadFS; kernel developers already implemented iget5_lock
I've came across this problem: how can a userspace program (such as for
example "cp -a") tell that two files form a hardlink? Comparing inode
number will break on filesystems that can have more than 2^32 files (NFS3,
OCFS, SpadFS; kernel developers already implemented iget5_locked for the
case of
> I've came across this problem: how can a userspace program (such as for
> example "cp -a") tell that two files form a hardlink? Comparing inode
> number will break on filesystems that can have more than 2^32 files (NFS3,
> OCFS, SpadFS; kernel developers already implemented iget5_locked for th
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