From: Richard Weinberger
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:43:53 +0100
> Daniel, are you interested in a small kernel project?
Sure, I'm just pretty busy with university right now, I'll probably
pick this back up after exams are finished in a m
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:26:38PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> hostfs tries do reduce the amount of syscall between guest and host as much
> as possible. For file operations it passes everything down to the host but
> for directory operations only ->iterate() does.
>
> It is already horribl
Am 13.01.2015 um 23:19 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs
>> because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories.
>> While fsync(2) is allowed to
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs
> because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories.
> While fsync(2) is allowed to fail with EINVAL if the filesystem does not
> support i
