Jamie Lokier wrote:
- The contents of the real file (if there is one) and its virtual
derivative aren't synchronised. E.g. if you look inside a tar file
or the decompressed version of a .gz file, then changing either the
virtual or real files should affect the other.
Agreed.
Hi,
Here's a new version of the virtual file patch (against 2.4.0-test5),
and the kernel module for avfs/podfuk.
It now does:
- Clean up automatic mounts when parent is umounted
- Clear dcache upon module insert, so virtual files are always found
- Correctly handle virtual files in
Tigran Aivazian wrote:
b) it has serious (though unlikely to occur) race conditions wrt
filesystem's module unload and possibly with rename(2).
And perhaps with mount(2), which these days seems to do everything
rename(2) does and more?
-- Jamie
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
For tail writes, I'd imagine we would just end up using the page cache
as a virtual cache as NFS uses it, and doing plain copy into the
buffer cache pages.
Ouch. I _really_ don't like it - we end up with special
