Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount

[Vivek Goyal]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 07:24:38PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:

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> > > Yes, this is a known characteristic of stacked filesystems.  Is 
> > > there some magic I don't know about that would make it easier to 
> > > reflect hard links as aliases?
> > 
> > I think overlayfs had the same issue in the beginning and miklos
> > fixed it.
> > 
> > commit 51f7e52dc943468c6929fa0a82d4afac3c8e9636
> > Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Fri Jul 29 12:05:24 2016 +0200
> > 
> >     ovl: share inode for hard link
> 
> That's rather complex, but the principle is simple: use the inode hash
> for all upper inodes that may have aliases.  Aliasable means the
> underlying inode isn't a directory and has i_nlink > 1, so all I have
> to do is perform a lookup through the hash if the underlying is
> aliasable, invalidate the dentry in d_revalidate if the aliasing
> conditions to the underlying change and manually handle hard links and
> it should all work.
> 
> Like this?

Sounds reasonable to me. I did basic testing and this seems to work for me.

In general, I am having random crashes. I just get following on serial
console

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And nothing after that.

Still trying to narrow down.

Vivek