On May 22 2007 08:43, Bharata B Rao wrote: >On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:47:31AM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: >> Bharata B Rao wrote: >> >> > >> >Not really. This is called during copyup of a file residing in a lower >> >layer. And that is done only for regular files. >> >> That is broken. > >But it only breaks the semantics (in other cases we allow writes only to the >top layer files). So the question is why do we have to copy up the device >node ? What difference it makes to writing to the device itself ? Because `chmod 666 blockdevnode` is not the same as writing to the device itself? >Currently we allow write to the device using the lower layer device node >itself. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
