From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933779Ab1ESSGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 14:06:05 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:35444 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933638Ab1ESSGD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 14:06:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:05:58 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem v9 Message-ID: <20110519180558.GJ3702@shadowen.org> References: <1305635452-14835-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <20110519163709.GH3702@shadowen.org> <87sjsak2jt.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sjsak2jt.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:44:54PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Forgot to attach the patch? Yep, should be in your inbox now. > > > > With this in place I have been able to boot a Natty release live CD > > image, and upgrade it in place to the latest and greatest of everything. > > Very nice. Thanks for your work continuing work on overlayfs. It is > > starting to look good enough to merge. > > > > Comments? > > I'd be happier if the LSM module were fixed not to peek inside the inode > structure. Some filesystems (notably network ones) do not guarantee i_* > to be up-to-date, relying on these is not a good idea. I wonder what what the official way to get ownership information for an inode is if we cannot rely on those. I am happy to get the Yama LSM fixed up if they are doing something wrong. -apw