Re: [PATCH 00/24] Read-only bind mounts

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:44:18 +0100
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:27:18AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > If we can't pull the entire series into -mm, can we just put the
> > > first three patches for now?  They can stand on their own.
> > 
> > Yes, they're kinda a series of their own.  But I still think we really
> > want this in -mm.  As we've seen on the kernel summit there's a pretty
> > desparate need for it.  And there's not many changes in this area in
> > -mm, maybe the unprivilegued mounts.  I'd personally prioritize the
> > r/o bindmounts over them as they're more needed and we need more reviewing
> > of the unprivilegued mounts (I'll try to come back to that soon).
> 
> What's the situation on unprivileged mounts?  iirc, it's all a bit stuck.
> 
> If unpriv-mounts code isn't going to go into mainline ahead of r/o bind
> mounts then it'd make a big mess to prepare the r/o bind mount patches on
> top of unprivileged mounts.
> 
> It sounds like a better approach would be for me to merge the r/o bind
> mounts code and to drop (or maybe rework) the unprivileged mounts patches

I actually don't think they collided too much.  There were a couple of
patches, like maybe 2 or 3 that needed any futzing at all.  

I'll cook up a set straight on top of mainline if that helps.

-- Dave