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Could you elaborate? Seems like there’s a bunch of things that can’t be batched together on an ordinary file, without involving symlinks.

• masklinn 4y ago
  What they (and TFA) are saying is that there is no transactional view of the FS. If you could work in “repeatable read” (only and always see the state of the FS before you started the transaction) symlink races wouldn’t be possible.
  • klodolph 4y ago
    Right, but there is no transactional view with or without symlinks.
    • masklinn 4y ago
      Without symlinks it doesn't matter, because by definition a symlink race requires a symlink to be involved.