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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	vaurora@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] overlay filesystem prototype
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:37:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20970.1283683030@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100903134116.039612691@szeredi.hu>


Miklos Szeredi:
> Changes since the last version:
	:::
>  - get write ref on the upper layer on mount unless the overlay
>    itself is mounted read-only

I think it a good approach.
Although it may be harmless, write-ref will not be put when a user
executes,
- mount -o ro /overlay
- umount /overlay
It will be easy to fix by implementing s_op->remount().


>  - raise capabilities for copy up, dealing with whiteouts and opaque
>    directories.  Now the overlay works for non-root users as well

Interesting approach.
But is it safe? If multi-threaded ap or a signal handler share
the credential, then they may gain incorrect capability.


J. R. Okajima

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-05 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03 13:41 [PATCH 0/6] overlay filesystem prototype Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 1/6] vfs: implement open "forwarding" Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 2/6] vfs: make i_op->permission take a dentry instead of an inode Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-17 13:14   ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-09-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 3/6] vfs: add flag to allow rename to same inode Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 5/6] overlay: hybrid overlay filesystem prototype Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 6/6] overlay: overlay filesystem documentation Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-05 10:37 ` J. R. Okajima [this message]
2010-09-05 11:44   ` [PATCH 0/6] overlay filesystem prototype Neil Brown
2010-09-05 12:08     ` J. R. Okajima

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