Would you describe the situation that would cause the kernel to
go into an infinite loop, please?
The patch basically does:
do {
...
error = inode-i_op-foo()
...
} while (error == ESTALE);
What is the guarantee,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Viro writes:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:08:30AM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
[concerns about lower directories moving around...]
You are thinking about non-interesting case. _Files_ are not much
of a problem. Directory tree is. The real problems with all
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:45:15PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
You are thinking about non-interesting case. _Files_ are not much
of a problem. Directory tree is. The real problems with all unionfs and
stacking implementations I've seen so far, all way back to Heidemann et.al.
start when
From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uniformly use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi/ for both block devices
and non-block device backed filesystems: FUSE and NFS.
Add symlink for block devices:
/sys/block/name/bdi - /sys/class/bdi/bdi
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move BDI statistics to debugfs:
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/bdi/stats
Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs,
because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall().
Update descriptions in ABI documentation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos
From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This managed to completely evade testing :(
Fix return value to be count or -errno. Also bring the function in
line with the other store functions on this object, which have more
strict input checking.
Also fix bdi_set_max_ratio() to actually return an
Here are incremental patches against the export BDI attributes in
sysfs patchset, addressing the issues identified at the last
submission:
- the read-only attributes are only for debugging
- more consistent naming needed in /sys/class/bdi
- documentation problems
I've also done some
The patch titled
embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt-cifs-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt-cifs-fix.patch
Before you just go and hit reply, please:
a) Consider who
