cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_lookup.c

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Wed Mar 8 12:46:45 PST 2006


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <440F3FAA.5090804 at samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
> 
> 
>>The only way to effectively avoid the problem would be to teach UFS to
>>completely ignore the '.snap' directory entry when doing a readdir and
>>lookup.  That is not the same as what is being discussed with having a
>>special hiiden hint flag.
> 
> 
> Wouldn't that make it somewhat hard to actually access the snapshots ?
> 

Sorry, I meant that the dirent would be surpressed from normal lookups 
and readdirs just just while it's unsafe to access it.

Scott



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