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

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Valerie Aurora:
> I think what people will expect is that we copy up in that case.  I
> can think of ways this can go wrong, but perhaps that should be an
> explicit requirement on the top-layer file system, that it can handle
> create/unlink() in a directory without write permission.

I am not sure such requirement is the right way.
How about delegating open() to keventd or some other workqueue which
will succeed to create files under a directory without write permission?
Of course, we should handle some error cases after creating a file.


J. R. Okajima
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