[PVFS-developers] metadata file size checking

[Don Porter]

Err, make that stat in metaopen an lstat (not stat) or some symlinks
might not work.

Thanks,
don

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:11, Rob Ross wrote:
> Hi Don,
> 
> Any feel for the overhead of doing this on every open/create?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> Porter Don wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > I wanted to implement some protection against overwriting a metadata file
> > that has not had the migration script run on it after an upgrade.  So I
> > ended up stat-ing the file in meta-open and if it is not a directory and its
> > size is not the same as a struct fmeta, then the manager will return an
> > EINVAL (open to suggestions for better error code) and print a message to
> > logs.  See below:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Thanks and let me know what you all think,
> > don