From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 01/10] vfs: add path_create() and path_mknod()
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 02:00:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403010016.GU9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804030047.m330l6Pf032755@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:47:06PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <1207183329.20254.49.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>, Trond Myklebust writes:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 00:47 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> [...]
> > > Again, what for?
> >
> > It allows you to get rid of the vfsmount 'argument' when opening a file,
> > which again lowers the barrier for stacking filesystems.
> >
> > As far as the filesystems themselves are concerned, the effect is to
> > enforce your assertion that file operations should not depend on the
> > namespace.
>
> I'd be delighted the day I won't have to deal with vfsmounts AT ALL in
> any stacked f/s.
vfsmounts or the fact that any fs may be mounted in many places?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 20:12 [patch 00/10] vfs: add helpers to check r/o bind mounts Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 01/10] vfs: add path_create() and path_mknod() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:54 ` Al Viro
2008-04-02 21:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 21:48 ` Al Viro
2008-04-02 22:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-04-02 22:36 ` Al Viro
2008-04-02 23:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-04-02 23:40 ` Al Viro
2008-04-02 23:47 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 0:42 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-04-03 0:47 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-03 1:00 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-04-03 1:37 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-03 1:46 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 2:21 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-03 2:32 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 23:24 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-04 11:04 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-03 0:58 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 7:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-03 22:32 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-03 12:33 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-04-02 21:00 ` Dave Hansen
2008-04-02 21:19 ` Dave Hansen
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 02/10] vfs: add path_mkdir() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 22:15 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 03/10] vfs: add path_rmdir() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 04/10] vfs: add path_unlink() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 05/10] vfs: add path_symlink() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 06/10] vfs: add path_link() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 07/10] vfs: add path_rename() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-04 17:56 ` Erez Zadok
2008-04-04 18:04 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 08/10] vfs: add path_setattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 09/10] vfs: add path_setxattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 20:12 ` [patch 10/10] vfs: add path_removexattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-02 21:22 ` [patch 00/10] vfs: add helpers to check r/o bind mounts Erez Zadok
2008-04-09 0:53 ` [PATCH] Unionfs: use the new path_* VFS helpers Erez Zadok
2008-04-10 11:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-10 12:02 ` [PATCH] Call LSM functions outside VFS helper functions Tetsuo Handa
2008-04-10 12:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-10 12:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-05 10:16 [patch 00/10] vfs: add helpers to check r/o bind mounts v3 Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 10:16 ` [patch 01/10] vfs: add path_create() and path_mknod() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-06 4:12 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 4:24 ` Al Viro
2008-05-06 5:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 6:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
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