Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:05:58 +0100
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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        nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de, hramrach@centrum.cz,
        jordipujolp@gmail.com
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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