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

[Shaya Potter]

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?

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