From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934996Ab0HFRRG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:17:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1025 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934138Ab0HFRQ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:16:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:16:40 -0400 From: Valerie Aurora To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jblunck@suse.de, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/38] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support Message-ID: <20100806171640.GC16599@shell> References: <1276627208-17242-1-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <1276627208-17242-15-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <20100804224831.GB29353@shell> <20100805233019.GA30761@shell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:15:14AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:36:55PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote: > > > > --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote: > > > > > > Add support for fallthru directory entries to ext2. > > > > > > > > > > If a previously used ext2 filesystem with is mounted again then > > > > > fallthroughs don't appear to work as expected. Stat returns ENOENT > > > > > for these entries. > > > > > > > > > > Can't see anything obviously wrong with the code. > > > > > > > > Hm, I wrote one test case for this that worked (attached). Can you > > > > give me more details on your test case? Thanks, > > > > Cool, thanks. Yes, I suppose the fallthrus should be ignored if they > > don't fall through to anything. > > That's not the case here. They _should_ fall through to ext3.img, yet > apparently after ovl.img being mounted again they don't seem to work. Oh, "mmount -b 8" == "mount -o union". Is this the mmount from mtools or something else? > Note, ovl.img starts out as a completely empty filesystem. > > The difference between your test case and mine mitght be that yours > not only reads the directory but stats the files as well, while mine > does not. Okay, I'll experiment more and see what I can do. -VAL > Thanks, > Miklos > > > > > > > uml:~# mount -oloop -r ext3-2.img /mnt/img/ > > > uml:~# mount -oloop -r ext3.img /mnt/img/ > > > uml:~# losetup -f ovl.img > > > uml:~# mmount -b 8 -t ext2 /dev/loop2 /mnt/img/ > > > uml:~# "ls" /mnt/img > > > bunion lost+found union > > > uml:~# "ls" /mnt/img/union > > > 1 2 3 > > > uml:~# "ls" /mnt/img/union/1 > > > a x > > > uml:~# umount /mnt/img/ > > > uml:~# mmount -b 8 -t ext2 /dev/loop2 /mnt/img/ > > > uml:~# ls -l /mnt/img/ > > > total 14 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 5 09:56 bunion > > > drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Aug 5 09:41 lost+found > > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Aug 5 09:56 union > > > uml:~# ls -l /mnt/img/union/ > > > ls: cannot access /mnt/img/union/3: No such file or directory > > > ls: cannot access /mnt/img/union/2: No such file or directory > > > total 1 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 5 09:56 1 > > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? 2 > > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? 3 > > > uml:~# ls -l /mnt/img/union/1 > > > ls: cannot access /mnt/img/union/1/a: No such file or directory > > > ls: cannot access /mnt/img/union/1/x: No such file or directory > > > total 0 > > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? a > > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? x > > > uml:~# > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Miklos > >