Hi,
> Darnit, documentation on filesystem locking is there for purpose. First
> folks complain about its absence, then they don't bother to read the
> bloody thing once it is there. Furrfu...
It's great that it's there, but still doesn't tell you everything.
> Said that, handling of indirect blocks used to be badly b0rken on all
> normal filesystems and it had been fixed only on ext2, so I wouldn't be
> amazed if regular files were bad on B-tree style filesystems. Directories
> are easy - all requests are process-synchronous (no pageout), no
> truncate() in sight, so the life is better.
I don't think that files are that easy, at least from what I know now from
hfs. For example reading from a file might require a read from a btree
file (extent file), with what another file write can be busy with (e.g.
reordering the btree nodes).
I really would prefer that a fs could sleep _and_ can use semaphores,
that would keep locking simple, otherwise it gets only a fscking mess.
bye, Roman
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