On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 05:50:19PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: ... >> >> That's a very good start. >> Now I wonder if the metacopy feature can break userspace apps that relied on >> metadata operations doing copy up to avoid the RDONLY/RDWR fd inconsistency, >> even if they escaped the inconsistency by accident so far. > > There is a small possibility that somebody was relying on this. But we > are keeping metacopy=off by default. So this should not be a backward > compatibility issue. Those who chose to enable it, they can't rely on > file being copied up on changing file attr. > Yeh. that's right. >> I guess there is only one one to know... > > Not sure what does this mean. > Deploy the feature and wait for the shouts... Cheers, Amir. -- 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
