[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd