From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:02:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271682168.14748.718.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419124025.GG10776@bolzano.suse.de>
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:40 +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, Valerie Aurora wrote:
>
> > Add support for fallthru directory entries to ext2.
> >
> > XXX - Makes up inode number for fallthru entry
> > XXX - Might be better implemented as special symlinks
>
> Better not. David Woodhouse actually convinced me of moving away from the
> special symlink approach. The whiteouts have been implemented as special
> symlinks before.
I certainly asked whether you really need a real 'struct inode' for
whiteouts, and suggested that they should be represented _purely_ as a
dentry with type DT_WHT.
I don't much like the manifestation of that in this patch though,
especially with the made-up inode number. (ISTR I had other
jffs2-specific objections too, which I'll dig out and forward).
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-19 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 23:04 [PATCH 00/35] Union mounts - everything but the xattrs Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 01/35] VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 02/35] VFS: Add read-only users count to superblock Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 03/35] XXX autofs4: Save autofs trigger's vfsmount in super block info Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 04/35] whiteout/NFSD: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 05/35] whiteout: Add vfs_whiteout() and whiteout inode operation Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 06/35] whiteout: Set S_OPAQUE inode flag when creating directories Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 07/35] whiteout: Allow removal of a directory with whiteouts Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 08/35] whiteout: tmpfs whiteout support Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 09/35] whiteout: Split of ext2_append_link() from ext2_add_link() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 10/35] whiteout: ext2 whiteout support Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 11/35] whiteout: jffs2 " Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 12/35] fallthru: Basic fallthru definitions Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 14/35] fallthru: jffs2 " Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 15/35] fallthru: tmpfs " Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 16/35] union-mount: Writable overlays/union mounts documentation Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 17/35] union-mount: Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 18/35] union-mount: Introduce union_mount structure and basic operations Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 19/35] union-mount: Drive the union cache via dcache Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 20/35] union-mount: Implement union lookup Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 21/35] union-mount: Support for mounting union mount file systems Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 22/35] union-mount: Call do_whiteout() on unlink and rmdir in unions Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 23/35] union-mount: Copy up directory entries on first readdir() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 24/35] VFS: Split inode_permission() and create path_permission() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 25/35] VFS: Create user_path_nd() to lookup both parent and target Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 26/35] union-mount: In-kernel copyup routines Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 27/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware access()/faccessat() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 28/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware link() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 29/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware rename() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 30/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware writable open() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 31/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware chown() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 32/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware truncate() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 33/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware chmod()/fchmodat() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 34/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware lchown() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-15 23:04 ` [PATCH 35/35] union-mount: Implement union-aware utimensat() Valerie Aurora
2010-04-20 16:30 ` [PATCH 16/35] union-mount: Writable overlays/union mounts documentation Miklos Szeredi
2010-04-28 20:19 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-04-29 9:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-04-29 20:20 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-05-10 12:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-17 19:55 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-04-29 16:10 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-04-19 12:40 ` [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support Jan Blunck
2010-04-19 13:02 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2010-04-19 13:23 ` Jan Blunck
2010-04-19 13:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-19 14:12 ` Jan Blunck
2010-04-19 14:23 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-04-19 14:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-04-20 21:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 8:42 ` Jan Blunck
2010-04-21 9:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 9:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-04-21 9:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 10:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-04-21 17:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 21:34 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-04-21 21:38 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-04-21 22:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-22 10:30 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-04-20 21:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-19 13:03 ` [PATCH 11/35] whiteout: jffs2 whiteout support David Woodhouse
2010-04-19 14:26 ` Valerie Aurora
[not found] ` <1271372682-21225-5-git-send-email-vaurora-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-04-16 15:59 ` [PATCH 04/35] whiteout/NFSD: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20100416155943.GD29363-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2010-04-19 12:37 ` Jan Blunck
2010-04-19 13:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-04-15 23:45 ` [PATCH 03/35] autofs4: Save autofs trigger's vfsmount in super block info Valerie Aurora
2010-04-21 22:06 ` [PATCH 00/35] Union mounts - everything but the xattrs Randy Dunlap
2010-04-21 23:35 ` Valerie Aurora
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