Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751388AbWIDKqe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:46:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbWIDKqe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:46:34 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:51654 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751378AbWIDKqd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:46:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:41:58 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Josef Sipek cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22][RFC] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality In-Reply-To: <20060904092534.GA19836@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Message-ID: References: <20060901013512.GA5788@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <20060901014251.GF5788@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <20060904092534.GA19836@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 25 >> Is BUG the right thing, what do others think? (Using WARN, and set err to >> something useful?) > >Well, it is definitely a condition which Unionfs doesn't expect - if it >doesn't know about the type, how could it copy it up? Other filesystems don't seem to BUG either (at least I have not run into that yet) when - for whatever reasons - the statdata of a dentry is fubared. `ls` just displays it then, like ?-w---Sr-T 1 root root 4294967295 date fubared_file Jan Engelhardt -- -- VGER BF report: H 0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/