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Subject: [9fans] lnfs
Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2002 09:18:49 +0100
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Is it expected that lnfs can support several instances of it running
on the same file tree?

It looks that way in that it reloads the the name file before walks
and creates.

But there is no retry around the write of a new entry in newname().
So one instance might create a long named file, and fail to flush it
to .longnames.  Another instance would then not have a translation for
the base32 name it finds in the directory during a walk.

I accept that the windows are small, but I'm searching for an
explanation for some strange behaviour I saw yesterday.