Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932129AbXAHVeF (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:34:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932120AbXAHVeF (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:34:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:45173 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932118AbXAHVeC (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:34:02 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:29:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org, mhalcrow@us.ibm.com, David Quigley , Erez Zadok Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/24] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality Message-Id: <20070108132947.6a8f9cf4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <11682295971184-git-send-email-jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> References: <1168229596580-git-send-email-jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> <11682295971184-git-send-email-jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 18 On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:12:57 -0500 "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" wrote: > From: Josef "Jeff" Sipek > > This patch contains the functions used to perform copyup operations in unionfs. What is a copyup operation and why does it exist? It seems to be copying the entire contents of certain files. That's not a thing I'd have expected to see in a union filesystem. Explain it all, please? (Somewhere where the info will be retained for posterity - a random email is good, but not sufficient...) - 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/