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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: test EROFS vs. EEXIST when creating on an RO filesystem
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:11:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121127221111.GA13753@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B52DB7.3030506@redhat.com>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:16:39PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> TBH, I don't know if this is posix-specified, but I found out the
> hard way that when trying to re-create existing files on a readonly 
> filesystem, some apps expect/handle EEXIST, but fail on EROFS.
> 
> This will test mkdir, mknod, and symlinks for that behavior.

Just curious, which filesystem would fail this currently or did in the
past?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 21:16 [PATCH] xfstests: test EROFS vs. EEXIST when creating on an RO filesystem Eric Sandeen
2012-11-27 22:08 ` Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 22:10   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-11-27 22:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-11-27 22:12   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-11-27 22:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-28  3:19 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen

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