Re: [VFS] move active filesystem

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 13 May 1999 14:39:26 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 13 May 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > mounts are serialized wrt each other.
>
> I believe you. So is this goodbye to the days of mounting multiple
> filesystems on different disks in parallel? (Mounting a large disk is
> pretty slow).

We don't have it right now. We *can* gain it with the new dcache/namei I
have in pre-alpha state - it solves almost all problems with races on VFS
level and adding loop prevention on fs level is not hard.

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