Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: accomodate 32 bit capabilities

2007-05-11 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:01:27PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: On May 08, 2007 16:49 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Andreas Dilger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One of the important use cases I can see today is the ability to split the heavily-overloaded e.g. CAP_SYS_ADMIN into much more

Re: [RFC] TileFS - a proposal for scalable integrity checking

2007-05-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:51:41PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: We will, unfortunately, need to be able to check an entire directory at once. There's no other efficient way to assure that there are no duplicate names in a directory, for instance. I don't see that being a major problem for the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page()

2007-05-11 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a fine-grained way of turning on -W's useful bits. You can turn off -W's undesirable bits. For net/rxrpc/ and fs/afs/ at least, adding: CFLAGS += -W -Wno-unused-parameter to the Makefile generates

Re: [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page()

2007-05-11 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More than one would expect, given that it is recommended in Documentation/SubmitChecklist, which everyone reads ;) Which states incorrectly: | 22: Newly-added code has been compiled with `gcc -W'. This will generate | lots of noise, but is good for

Re: [PATCH 1/2] AFS: Fix interminable loop in afs_write_back_from_locked_page()

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:49:23 +0100 David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following bug was uncovered by compiling with '-W' flag: gcc -W finds a number of fairly scary bugs. Do you mean in my code specifically? Or in the kernel in general?

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-11 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:39:50AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:26:20PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:59:26AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:31:02PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: I have the updated patches ready

Re: [nameidata 1/2] Don't pass NULL nameidata to vfs_create

2007-05-11 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Monday 16 April 2007 18:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:11:30PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2007 12:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Once again very strong NACK. Every conditional passing of vfsmounts get my veto. As mentioned last time

Re: [RFC] TileFS - a proposal for scalable integrity checking

2007-05-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:46:41AM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:51:41PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: We will, unfortunately, need to be able to check an entire directory at once. There's no other efficient way to assure that there are no duplicate names in a