Re: [PATCH 14/38] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support

[Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:28:29PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2010-08-06, at 16:35, Valerie Aurora wrote:
> > XXX What to do for d_ino for fallthrus?  If we return the inode from
> > the the underlying file system, it comes from a different inode
> > "namespace" and that will produce spurious matches.  This argues for
> > implementation of fallthrus as symlinks because they have to allocate
> > an inode (and inode number) anyway, and we can later reuse it if we
> > copy the file up.
> > 
> > @@ -342,6 +344,24 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void * dirent, +				/* XXX We don't know the inode number
> > +				 * of the directory entry in the
> > +				 * underlying file system.  Should
> > +				 * look it up, either on fallthru
> > +				 * creation at first readdir or now at
> > +				 * filldir time. */
> > +				over = filldir(dirent, de->name, de->name_len,
> > +					       (n<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) | offset,
> > +					       123 /* Made up ino */, d_type);
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to use "123" for the inode number.  This is a valid inode number, and almost certainly one that will be in use in most filesystems.  One option for extN is to use EXT2_BAD_INO (1).

The next version (Subject: Union mounts - return d_ino from lower fs)
fixed this.  Take a look and tell me what you think?

-VAL