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

[Jan Hudec]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 00:52:45 +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)
> 
> AS> These two statements are contradictory.

The reliable suggestion in question is, that link count of the link
source is checked to see, whether the link succeeded. So it does not
need the result to be reliable. That's not contradictory.

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