Re: [PATCH 05/22][RFC] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality

Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-04T10:46:34Z

>> Is BUG the right thing, what do others think? (Using WARN, and set err to
>> something useful?)
>
>Well, it is definitely a condition which Unionfs doesn't expect - if it
>doesn't know about the type, how could it copy it up?

Other filesystems don't seem to BUG either (at least I have not run into
that yet) when - for whatever reasons - the statdata of a dentry is
fubared. `ls` just displays it then, like

?-w---Sr-T 1 root root 4294967295 date fubared_file

Jan Engelhardt
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