Re: supermount (was Re: Floppy handling)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 15:51:25 EST


On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > It definitely needs review, especially by the original SuperMount author
> > > (sct?) Al Viro looked at one version of the patch and worried about
> > > races.
> >
> > ... and SCT was somewhat unhappy about the inode-based implementation
> > (<AOL></AOL> on that).
>
> So you would also go for using the stackable fs stuff for this instead ?

Hell knows. If anything, that stuff depends on having revoke() that works
- otherwise it's asking for trouble big way. If we have that - fine,
either stacking dentries by hands or using Erez's stuff will do the trick,
but that's a pretty minor problem compared to revoke(2) done right.

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