On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:45 AM, hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Miklos, > > I was considering the "FIXME: workdir is not needed for a R/O mount" > you left in ovl_fill_super() these days. > > Actually Seunghun (Seunghun Lee <waydi1@xxxxxxxxx>) has sent a patch > about these problem. But I have some different ideas. I think there are > two ways to fix this problem. One, just remove this *FIXME*. Another, > Allow non-workdir mount. > > 1) Remove *FIXME*; Further, use workdir in R/W case only > > As multi-layer mount are allowed in ovl, users could initialize a R/O > mount by setting multi lower directories. Workdir should only be used > in R/W case with upperdir exist. So this *FIXME* can be removed. > > We should add some information in the code and document about this. I'd vote for this. If there's no workdir, just use multiple lowedirs. If there is a workdir, then specify it (and overlay can still be mounted R/O, possibly remounted R/W) Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
