From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jblunck@suse.de, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] hybrid union filesystem prototype
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:38:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100830183843.GB2444@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100827213502.31af4a4c@notabene>
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:35:02PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:47:39 +0200
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > > Changes to underlying filesystems
> > > ---------------------------------
> > >
> >
> > For now I refuse to even think about what happens in this case.
> >
> > The easiest way out of this mess might simply be to enforce exclusive
> > modification to the underlying filesystems on a local level, same as
> > the union mount strategy. For NFS and other remote filesystems we
> > either
> >
> > a) add some way to enforce it,
> > b) live with the consequences if not enforced on the system level, or
> > c) disallow them to be part of the union.
> >
>
> I actually think that your approach can work quite will with either the
> upper or lower changing independently. Certainly it can produce some odd
> situations, but even NFS can do that (though maybe not quite so odd).
I'm very curious about your thoughts on how to handle the lower layer
changing. Al Viro's comments:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.0/0839.html
Do you see something we're missing?
-VAL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-26 18:33 [PATCH 0/5] hybrid union filesystem prototype Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] vfs: implement open "forwarding" Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] vfs: make i_op->permission take a dentry instead of an inode Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-26 20:24 ` David P. Quigley
2010-08-27 4:11 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-27 18:13 ` David P. Quigley
2010-08-27 19:21 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-27 18:31 ` David P. Quigley
2010-08-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] vfs: add flag to allow rename to same inode Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] union: hybrid union filesystem prototype Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-01 21:42 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-02 9:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-02 21:33 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-03 5:10 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-03 9:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-09 16:02 ` David P. Quigley
2010-09-03 8:52 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-02 21:42 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-03 12:31 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-27 7:05 ` [PATCH 0/5] " Neil Brown
2010-08-27 8:47 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-27 11:35 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-27 16:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-29 4:42 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-30 10:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-30 11:40 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-30 12:20 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-31 19:18 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-31 20:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-01 1:56 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-01 4:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-01 4:33 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-01 20:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-31 19:29 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-09-02 13:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-02 13:32 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-02 14:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-02 14:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-08 19:47 ` David P. Quigley
2010-09-23 13:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 19:22 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-30 18:38 ` Valerie Aurora [this message]
2010-08-30 23:12 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-31 11:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-08-31 11:24 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-31 15:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2010-08-31 15:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2010-08-31 20:36 ` Valerie Aurora
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