Re: [PATCH 00/22][RFC] Unionfs: Stackable Namespace Unification Filesystem

Pavel Machek
2006-09-04T20:34:08Z

On Mon 2006-09-04 09:28:26, Shaya Potter wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 11:05 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > - Modifying a Unionfs branch directly, while the union is mounted, is
> > > currently unsupported. Any such change may cause Unionfs to oops and it
> > > can even result in data loss!
> >
> > I'm not sure if that is acceptable. Even root user should be unable to
> > oops the kernel using 'normal' actions.
>
> As I said in the other case. imagine ext2/3 on a a san file system
> where 2 systems try to make use of it. Will they not have issues?

They probably will have issues (altrough I'm not sure, perhaps ext2
has been debugged enough), but they'll fix them (as opposed to
document that oopses are okay).
Pavel
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