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hardlink patch series

by Steve French-2 :: Rate this Message:

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I have been reviewing Jeff's series of (large) patches for hardlink
fixup.   The only problem I have noticed so far is the rename error
path - we have cached inode information which could have stale inode
numbers for source and target (they could be up to 1 second old) so we
may incorrectly think that source and target are different inodes in
the EEXIST case (Jeff removed the logic which checks if source/target
inode numbers are the same on EEXIST).  It may not matter to current
Samba (more recent POSIX extensions) but still trying to check that
...

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Thanks,

Steve
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