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Message-Id: <200912010457.nB14vRim030930@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:57:27 -0500
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...onical.com>,
	Sandu Popa Marius <sandupopamarius@...il.com>,
	Jan Rekorajski <baggins@...h.mimuw.edu.pl>,
	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@...il.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 41/41] union-mount: Add support for rename by __union_copyup() 

In message <1256152779-10054-42-git-send-email-vaurora@...hat.com>, Valerie Aurora writes:
> From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@...radead.org>
> 
> It is possible to use __union_copyup() to support rename of regular files
> without returning -EXDEV.
> 
> XXX - Rewrite as copyup to old name followed by rename() + whiteout()

All this code just to support rename by copyup?!  I can see why we're
looking for other tricks, such as symlinks...

> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>

> +//	error = hash_lookup_union(&oldnd, &oldnd.last, &old);
> +	error = lookup_rename_source(&oldnd, &newnd, &trap, &oldnd.last, &old);

> +//	if (is_unionized(newnd.path.dentry, newnd.path.mnt))
> +//		goto exit5;

Nuke.

Erez.
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