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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: overlayfs patches for ovl_copy_up & ovl_rename
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:49:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkmjxeg4.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105190947.17303.jordipujolp@gmail.com> (Jordi Pujol's message of "Thu, 19 May 2011 09:47:16 +0200")

Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com> writes:

> A Dimecres 18 Maig 2011 10:42:53, Miklos Szeredi va escriure:
>>   Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
>> 
>> for all the gory details.
>
> ok, i'll look this,
>
>> So, is there a minimal test case that I can try to replicate the bad
>> behavior?
>
> it's an occasional error, occurs when the system is occupied
> processing diverse tasks at the same time, for example when startpar
> is running in parallel the initialization of system daemons, this is
> detected because some changes done by the same daemon program are
> lost, (the case of consecutive sed instructions)

This file, which modifications are lost, is this on the upper
filesystem, the lower filesystem or both, before the modification?  And
after the modification?

>  or when doing a big
> upgrade of the system packages, some files are lost.

How are they lost?  They don't exist when they should?  What's the
contents of the upper and lower filesystems?

Thanks,
Miklos

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 14:59 overlayfs patches for ovl_copy_up & ovl_rename Jordi Pujol
2011-05-05  9:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-09  6:38   ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-10 16:20     ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17  8:43       ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-17 17:18         ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-17 18:07           ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-18  7:44             ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-18  8:42               ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-19  7:47                 ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-19  8:49                   ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2011-05-19  9:24                     ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-19  9:52                       ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-19 13:34                         ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-21  5:10                       ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-23  9:21                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-24 15:53                           ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-27 15:03                           ` Jordi Pujol
2011-05-31  9:01                             ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-05-19  8:52                   ` Jordi Pujol

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