From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] RCU'd vfsmounts
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:37:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131004083729.GA23116@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131004025351.GO13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:53:51AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Speaking of those two - I really want to see file_table.c one killed.
> Christoph, do you have anything along the lines of getting rid of the
> mark_files_ro() nonsense? After all, a combination of r/w vfsmount
> and a superblock with MS_RDONLY in flags should do about the right thing
> these days... I can probably knock something together tomorrow, but
> you've brought that thing up quite a few times, so if you happen to have
> a patch more or less ready...
I used to have a patch for it that was also sent to the list long ago,
but it got rid of the sysrq emergency remount r/o, which people didn't like.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-04 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-03 6:20 [PATCH 17/17] RCU'd vfsmounts Al Viro
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[not found] ` <20131003105130.GE13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <CA+55aFzh+n_2fs=aWcT_5gnLC_pWSHqQPJeQ+fg=+Xw7ib9=dQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20131003174439.GG13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-03 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-03 19:43 ` Al Viro
2013-10-03 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-03 20:41 ` Al Viro
2013-10-03 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-03 21:14 ` Al Viro
2013-10-04 2:53 ` Al Viro
2013-10-04 8:37 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-10-04 12:58 ` Al Viro
2013-10-04 14:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-03 23:28 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-03 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-04 0:41 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-04 0:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-04 6:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-04 5:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-04 6:03 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-04 6:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-04 7:04 ` Josh Triplett
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