Re: 5.99.42/i386 crash (backtrace + core available)

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:34:46AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
 > > Nope.  It turns out that file systems are difficult because file systems
 > > are difficult, not because locking is difficult.
 > 
 > How come in that case that nobody managed to fixed our rename races in
 > the last 24 month?

Because the ufs code didn't cooperate with the ufs_rename patches that
don't rely on namei cleanup, and namei cleanup is an extensive problem
and I haven't had enough time to work on it...

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David A. Holland
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