On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 01:44 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Howells writes: > > From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Stop the UnionFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace > > unionfs_read_inode() with unionfs_iget(), and call that instead of iget(). > > unionfs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error > > code > > instead of an inode in the event of an error. > > > > unionfs_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode > > instead of EINVAL. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] > > Thanks. I tested this code and it passed all my tests. I'll shortly submit > a slightly revised patch which applies cleanly against the unionfs code in > -mm.
Does your test set include readahead-list? I can't get it to work with a union mounted filesystem without segfault'ing and kernel oops'ing. Paul Albrecht - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/