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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:06:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Leon Me??ner <l.messner@physik.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Re: Re: freeBSD nullfs together with nfs and "silly rename"
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.1006121904160.28836@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20100612150915.GN13238@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20100606144443.GA50876@emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> <8639wsk4t1.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <20100612141549.GM13238@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.GSO.4.63.1006121112150.4460@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca> <20100612150915.GN13238@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote:

>
> Yes, I hoped that Mikolaj ends up with something similar :). Please note
> that this is racy, since we cannot know why usecount is greater then 1.
> This might cause the silly rename to kick in some time where it should
> not, but the race is rare.
>
I'd say that having silly rename happen once in a while for unlink when
it doesn't have to happen is better than having the file deleted on the
server while it is still open on the client.

rick




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