Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
11 Jun 2003 13:33:35 +0100

On Mer, 2003-06-11 at 06:30, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Multiple aliased dentries have never been ok, unless the filesystem
> explicitly handles them and invalidates them (ie ntfs/fat kind of things).

For vfat at least its all broken.

cd foo
mv ../file .
more file

ESTALE.

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