On Thu, 19 May 2011 19:05:58 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:44:54PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Forgot to attach the patch? > > Yep, should be in your inbox now. > > > > > > > With this in place I have been able to boot a Natty release live CD > > > image, and upgrade it in place to the latest and greatest of everything. > > > Very nice. Thanks for your work continuing work on overlayfs. It is > > > starting to look good enough to merge. > > > > > > Comments? > > > > I'd be happier if the LSM module were fixed not to peek inside the inode > > structure. Some filesystems (notably network ones) do not guarantee i_* > > to be up-to-date, relying on these is not a good idea. > > I wonder what what the official way to get ownership information for an > inode is if we cannot rely on those. I am happy to get the Yama LSM > fixed up if they are doing something wrong. > > -apw inode->getattr(...., &kstat); look at kstat.uid, kstat.gid. ?? NeilBrown -- 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
