Re: [RFC PATCH] Show data flow for file copyup in unions

[J. R. Okajima]

Valerie Aurora:
> Hm, I don't understand how handing it off to another thread would
> help.  The thing I am worried about is some internal assumption in the
> file system that a directory without write permission can't be
> changed.  Totally manufactured example:
>
> somefs_create()
> {
> 	BUG_ON(IS_RDONLY(dir->d_inode);
> [...]
> }

While I don't know whether there suce fs exists or not, for such fs we
cannot create files. I agree with you.


J. R. Okajima
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