Miklos Szeredi:
> Yes. And I think there's actually a bug in there. The comment says,
> that the attributes are refreshed after a timeout, but that may not
> always happen.
>
> So fuse_permission() should check the attribute validity timeout and
> if it has expired, refresh the attributes befor
Miklos Szeredi:
> I have not said that a filesystem must not refresh it's attributes in
> ->permission(), but it does not _have_ to do that. It's the
> filesystem own private choice, and none of the VFS's business :)
I understand that you wrote about the plan to move ->permission. And it
indicat
Miklos Szeredi:
> generic_permission() is only called, if the filesystem doesn't define
> i_op->permission().
Fuse defines i_op->permission() and fuse_permission() calls
generic_permission().
> I've fixed that, by setting n_link to 1 for the root. Is there some
> other problem?
Tomas wrote th
Miklos Szeredi:
> Which one was that? The only two I see invloving i_uid, are the
> sticky check and the O_NOATIME check.
generic_permission() is referencing i_uid.
According to your opinion, i_uid has to be updated by getattr, hasn't
it? Or are you planning to refresh inode before calling
gener
Miklos Szeredi:
> And I've shown, that all the other cases are irrelevant.
I didn't agree all of them, especially about permission bits and i_uid.
> You seem to think, that we've already decided, that the right way to
> deal with this is to refresh the attributes on lookup.
Not *right* way.
Wh
Tomas M:
> I respect you don't wish to ask kernel people to include aufs now. But
> please consider simply submitting aufs code to LKML; not for inclusion,
> but for review. This is the best chance to see VERY VALUABLE feedback
> regarding the code from many developers around the world. You wil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Russell,
>
> "Russell Harmon":
>> I was just wondering, has anyone tried to get aufs included in the
>> kernel? If not, why not?
>
> Currently, I don't have a plan to ask kernel people to include aufs.
> But someday I will try it.
>
I think I told you this
