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 -- 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