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

Shaya Potter
2006-09-04T13:29:46Z

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?