Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

[Tonnerre]

Salut,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:01:17PM +0200, Spam wrote:
> >> mount -t tarfs /some/place/on/disk/foo.tar.gz /mnt/tar
> >> cp /var/tmp/img.gif .
> >> umount /mnt/tar
> 
> > Oops!  Someone did a rm /some/place/on/disk/foo.tar.gz between steps
> > one and two.  Now what happens?  Please define those semantics...
> 
>   Uhm, can you delete a file (loop) that is mounted?

"Text file busy"

But for files this isn't true.

Currently, we  have another method assuring data  coherency: we remove
the inode only when the last reference goes away.

				Tonnerre

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