From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: [PATCH 00/10] Assorted fixes/enhancements for overlayfs Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:50:27 +1000 Message-ID: <20100906004829.20775.68828.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi Miklos, following are an assortment of suggested changes for overlayfs for your consideration. They pass some light testing. Thanks, NeilBrown --- NeilBrown (10): ovl: small optimisation for ovl_lookup ovl: minimal remount support. ovl: use correct seek function for directories. ovl: initialise is_real before use. ovl: make sure fsync is never called on the lower filesystem. ovl: rename ovl_fill_cache to ovl_dir_read ovl: add initial revalidate support VFS: tiny optimisation in open_other handling. VFS: Remove read-only checks from dentry_permission ovl: Assorted updates to Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 41 ++++--- fs/namei.c | 15 --- fs/open.c | 2 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.c | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 4 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-) -- Signature