Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753586Ab1FJJAP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:00:15 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:44448 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751149Ab1FJJAM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:00:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:01:43 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Valerie Aurora Cc: Andrew Morton , Miklos Szeredi , NeilBrown , viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion Message-ID: <20110610100143.28037551@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20110609125114.8dff08da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEWysKsSBQMIAwIZCwj///8wIhxoRDXH9QHCAAABeUlEQVQ4jaXTvW7DIBAAYCQTzz2hdq+rdg494ZmBeE5KYHZjm/d/hJ6NfzBJpp5kRb5PHJwvMPMk2L9As5Y9AmYRBL+HAyJKeOU5aHRhsAAvORQ+UEgAvgddj/lwAXndw2laEDqA4x6KEBhjYRCg9tBFCOuJFxg2OKegbWjbsRTk8PPhKPD7HcRxB7cqhgBRp9Dcqs+B8v4CQvFdqeot3Kov6hBUn0AJitrzY+sgUuiA8i0r7+B3AfqKcN6t8M6HtqQ+AOoELCikgQSbgabKaJW3kn5lBs47JSGDhhLKDUh1UMipwwinMYPTBuIBjEclSaGZUk9hDlTb5sUTYN2SFFQuPe4Gox1X0FZOufjgBiV1Vls7b+GvK3SU4wfmcGo9rPPQzgIabfj4TYQo15k3bTHX9RIw/kniir5YbtJF4jkFG+dsDK1IgE413zAthU/vR2HVMmFUPIHTvF6jWCpFaGw/A3qWgnbxpSm9MSmY5b3pM1gvNc/gQfwBsGwF0VCtxZgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 514 Lines: 13 > 1. Al Viro and Christoph Hellwig bring up the same locking problems > *every single time* someone proposes a copy-up in-kernel file system, > and *every single time* they are dismissed or hand-waved. Perhaps you can detail the locking problem in question ? Alan -- 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/