From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04 (linux-2.6.4)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:34:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040314203427.27857fd9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040315042541.GA31412@MAIL.13thfloor.at>
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 08:14:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> > >
> > > ; this patch adds some functionality to the --bind
> > > ; type of vfs mounts.
> >
> > This won't apply any more. We very recently changed a large number of
> > filesystems to not call update_atime() from within their readdir functions.
> > That operation was hoisted up to vfs_readdir().
>
> good decision, very recently probably means in the bk repository,
> is there any link where I could download those changes?
The latest diff against the most-recently-release kernel is always at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/
the topmost link.
> > Also, rather than adding MNT_IS_RDONLY() and having to remember to check
> > both the inode and the mount all over the kernel it would be better to
> > change IS_RDONLY() to take two arguments - the inode and the vfsmnt. That
> > way we won't miss places, and unconverted code simpy won't compile, thus
> > drawing attention to itself. I don't know if this is feasible, but please
> > consider it.
>
> I don't have a problem with that, and it sounds good to me so
> far, so I'll have a look at it, and will update the patch
> accordingly ...
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-15 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-15 3:55 [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04 (linux-2.6.4) Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 4:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-15 4:25 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 4:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-15 7:55 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 7:56 ` [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04.1 1/5 Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 7:57 ` [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04.1 2/5 Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-18 12:16 ` viro
2004-03-19 1:57 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-04-02 1:23 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 7:58 ` [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04.1 3/5 Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-15 23:04 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-16 6:30 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-18 12:26 ` viro
2004-03-19 2:52 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-19 11:11 ` viro
2004-03-19 13:40 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-19 14:52 ` viro
2004-03-15 7:58 ` [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04.1 4/5 Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 7:59 ` [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04.1 5/5 Herbert Poetzl
2004-03-15 13:25 ` [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04 (linux-2.6.4) Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-03-15 18:25 ` Dariush Pietrzak
2004-03-22 18:03 Albeiro
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