linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

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Message-Id: <1168362425.6054.41.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:07:05 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, viro@....linux.org.uk, torvalds@...l.org,
	mhalcrow@...ibm.com, David Quigley <dquigley@...sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:04 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   But once you have MS_RDONLY set, there should be no modifications of
> the underlying filesystem, should they? And I have understood that the
> only problem is modifying the filesystem underneath unionfs. But maybe
> I'm missing something.

Remote filesystems. The MS_RDONLY bit on your client means bugger all to
the server and all the other clients.

Trond

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