linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] overlay filesystem (inode.c bad error path)

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Message-ID: <87aaed23s1.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 10:57:02 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Erez Zadok <ezk@....cs.sunysb.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] overlay filesystem (inode.c bad error path)

Erez Zadok <ezk@....cs.sunysb.edu> writes:

> Done: reverted my ovl patches and applied yours.  And indeed, the NULL
> oopses don't show up after 10 minutes of running.  Just to be sure, I
> ran overlayfs on top of ext2, ext3, xfs, reiserfs, and tmps — no
> oopses.  And I wasn't able to reproduce the WARN_ON in ovl_permission.

Great, thanks for testing.  Pushed to .v9 branch.

> Are you interested in testing overlayfs on top of NFS at this time?

No, not as an upper layer.  NFS as a lower layer should work fine.

Thanks,
Miklos
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