linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/13] vfs: add helpers to check r/o bind mounts

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Message-Id: <E1Jp4m0-0004UU-3G@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:58:16 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	ezk@...sunysb.edu
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ezk@...sunysb.edu, mhalcrow@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] vfs: add helpers to check r/o bind mounts

> Sure, unionfs already does some of it now (and some of it can be recoded
> more cleanly), but I'd like to get rid of much of it if I could -- these new
> path_* helpers make me have to maintain vfsmounts even moreso than before.

With the words of Al: "that is hogwash".  Stacks either maintain
vfsmounts or they don't.  There's no middle ground.

Miklos
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