Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] FEATURE PLANS: revlib locking

[Andrew Suffield]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:37:42PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> A link operation is atomic under both NFSv2 and NFSv3; the problem, is
> that the result is not reliable

...

> Jan's suggestion is perfectly reliable with a hard NFS mount (hangs
> aside)

These two statements are contradictory. The first one is accurate
(assuming your NFS server is correctly implemented - which it most
likely isn't if it's NFSv2 [there exist maybe two or three correct
implementations, not including old versions of linux], and might not
be if it's NFSv3 [there exist maybe two or three broken
implementations, including old versions of linux]).

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