Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 May 2011 19:05:58 +0100 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem v9 |
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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
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