linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/22][RFC] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609041239390.17115@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:41:58 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, akpm@...l.org, viro@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22][RFC] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality


>> Is BUG the right thing, what do others think? (Using WARN, and set err to
>> something useful?)
> 
>Well, it is definitely a condition which Unionfs doesn't expect - if it
>doesn't know about the type, how could it copy it up?

Other filesystems don't seem to BUG either (at least I have not run into 
that yet) when - for whatever reasons - the statdata of a dentry is 
fubared. `ls`  just displays it then, like

 ?-w---Sr-T 1 root root 4294967295 date fubared_file



Jan Engelhardt
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