VOP_RENAME of the future

Csaba Henk csaba.henk at creo.hu
Mon Aug 7 15:21:22 PDT 2006


On 2006-08-07, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The current UFS code is complicated, since it didn't have a separation
> between namespace locking and content locking. When you kill the whole
> relocking dance, it becomes much simpler. Noone wants to really clean
> the UFS locking though, because the code base is extremely complicated.

Okay, I'm beginning to see the light. I slowly recognize what a fine
grained locking scheme in the namecache could and should provide.

Csaba





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