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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
To: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Show data flow for file copyup in unions
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:18:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14280.1268939924@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100318175543.GA30924@shell>


Valerie Aurora:
> Hm, I don't understand how handing it off to another thread would
> help.  The thing I am worried about is some internal assumption in the
> file system that a directory without write permission can't be
> changed.  Totally manufactured example:
>
> somefs_create()
> {
> 	BUG_ON(IS_RDONLY(dir->d_inode);
> [...]
> }

While I don't know whether there suce fs exists or not, for such fs we
cannot create files. I agree with you.


J. R. Okajima

      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16 18:17 [RFC PATCH] Show data flow for file copyup in unions Valerie Aurora
2010-03-16 22:51 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-03-18  0:53   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-03-18  8:10     ` J. R. Okajima
2010-03-18 17:55       ` Valerie Aurora
2010-03-18 19:18         ` J. R. Okajima [this message]

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