From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deny sys_{rename,link} across subvolumes of same disk
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:55:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081009055510.GA24531@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810090340.50462.trapni@gentoo.org>
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:40:50AM +0200, Christian Parpart wrote:
> This patch denies renames and linking of inodes across subvolumes, as it
> causes disk format corruption.
>
> I guess a long-term goal *might* be to just handle these special cases with
> care, to allow them by properly handling this case in the implementation,
> however, I wasn't unable to do that with my limited knowledge.
I'll post patches in a few days that make sure every subvolume is under
a different vfsmount which also solves this problem.
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2008-10-09 1:40 [PATCH] deny sys_{rename,link} across subvolumes of same disk Christian Parpart
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