On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:10, Simo Sorce wrote: > And samba is not the only application that do this kind of operation, > the proper fix would be to make smbfs driver able to "hide" a file if it > is unlilnked but yet open by some process, and then silently unlink it > when the last process closes it. > > It just involves a per open file counter and some kind of magic on > directory listing/file opening.
Under HP-UX 10.20 I ran into issues with automated software updates (via package from AFS or rsync, I forget) in that files (executables) that were in use could not be unlinked. As a result the software would rename the file with a .OLD extension. I then would periodically do a find through the file system to get rid of all .OLD filess. What a waste of I/O bandwidth. The solution that I did not find the time to implement was to create a .OLD directory on each mounted file system. All .OLD files could then be moved by the update tool into <mntpt>/.OLD. Then the cleanup process would only have one directory per file system to look at. A similar solution could be used here. The equivalent of the .OLD directory could be something that is not exported by samba. If an unlink() fails because of ETXTBUSY, rename() could be used to move it out of the shared directory to a directory that is monitored by a "deleted file reaper". Mike
