Re: fatfs locking

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

marco@linuxrulez.nl writes:

> FAT doesn't have inodes, so fatfs has to lock the node of the
> directory that contains the node for which diskfs_cached_lookup is
> called. 

This is the root misconception.  FAT *does* have inodes.  What it
doesn't have is *disk inodes*.  Or rather, it *does* have disk inodes,
which are physically stored in the parent directory, and there is a
rule that non-directory files can have only one link.

Thomas