On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 08:09:36PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > This is not a serious problem. If you choose this implementation, all
> > > you have to do is purge the cache of the changing id.
>
> > I am considering this, however, I am a bit concerned about performance
> > impact (as the name cache would become effectively unused except if you
> > lookup a file to which a reference is help and which is still in the cache).
>
> Huh? You would only purge the cache when a rename happens. That's
> not so bad, I think. I'm not suggesting purging the cache everytime
> you release an inode, just every time it's number changes.
Mmmh. Assume a rename happens while there is an open file handle.
What happens if then fsys_getfile is called, which does an lookup_hard on
the cache_id in the file handle?
Thanks,
Marcus
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