Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just making inode_lock() interruptible would break everything. Why? Obviously, you'd need to check the result of the inode_lock(), which I didn't put in my very rough example code, but why would taking the lock at the front of a vfs op like mkdir be a problem? > For overlayfs it doesn't really make sense, but for network fs and > fuse I guess it could be interesting. But overlayfs calls down into other filesystems - and those might be, say, network filesystems that want to be interruptible. David