FYI:

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=221337&start=2001-10-15&end=2001-10-21

(about how things done in Linux).


Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> (1) I am always wondering why not use a global rename lock so that there
>     is only one rename operation in progress at any time. This method is
>     used by GFS and probably Linux.  This could make the code simply. Maybe
>     we can even get rid of the relookup() stuff.
> 
>     This may reduce concurrency, but rename should not be a frequent
>     operation.
> 

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Yevgeniy Aleynikov
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