Re: puzzled

Posted Sep 3, 2004 15:36 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030)
In reply to: Re: puzzled by vonbrand
Parent article: More notes on reiser4

No, the problem is precisely that if a diretory has several parents[... ]you'd have to be able to find all parents and lock them before doing anything... and that will have a heavy cost if done naïvely.

I wrote:

if it was considered typical for a directory to have multiple parent pointers, and there were consistent conventions for performing atomic locking on all the parents of a directory at once, there might be no problem.

Larry