linux-kernel - Re: bug in nfs in 2.6.18-rc5?

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Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:27:45 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Shaya Potter <spotter@...columbia.edu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	unionfs@....cs.sunysb.edu
Subject: Re: bug in nfs in 2.6.18-rc5?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:54:07AM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
> so I'm trying to use unionfs, cachefs and nfs, as cachefs is 2.6.18-rc5 
> right now, thats what I'm testing, but I hit an oops.
> 
> basically unionfs's lookup does a "lookup_one_len()" on the underlying fs.

And there you have the bug already. unionfs must not do this, and given
the past discussion on this the unionfs developers should know that
very well :)

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