From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. R. Okajima" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Show data flow for file copyup in unions Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:18:44 +0900 Message-ID: <14280.1268939924@jrobl> References: <20100316181711.GB24819@shell> <20335.1268779891@jrobl> <20100318005358.GA24348@shell> <2640.1268899857@jrobl> <20100318175543.GA30924@shell> Cc: Alexander Viro , Miklos Szeredi , Dmitry Monakhov , Jeff Layton , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Valerie Aurora Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100318175543.GA30924@shell> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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