On Sat 02-07-16 12:20:31, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > It is expected that filesystems can not represent uids and gids from > outside of their user namespace. Keep things simple by not even > trying to create filesystem nodes with non-sense uids and gids. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> So if we have sb->s_user_ns that doesn't map UID and GID 0, root cannot directly create files in this filesystem. EOVERFLOW error will at least hint us where the problem is but still I'm suspecting this is going to create hard to debug configuration issues... I'm not sure if we can do anything about this but I wanted to point it out. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
