From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: rename S_KERNEL_FILE
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:17:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfPs4hpWtFziiO2c@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <922909.1643369759@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:35:59AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > Whether deny rmdir should have its own flag or not I don't know,
> > but from ovl POV I *think* it should not be a problem to deny rmdir
> > for the ovl upper/work dirs as long as ovl is mounted(?).
>
> What's the consequence of someone rearranging the directories directly in the
> contributing dirs whilst there's an overlay over them?
"Don't do it, then - presumably the kernel won't panic, but don't expect it to
try and invent nice semantics for the crap you are trying to pull"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-28 7:47 Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-28 9:01 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-01-28 10:12 ` David Howells
2022-01-28 11:09 ` Amir Goldstein
2022-01-28 11:35 ` David Howells
2022-01-28 13:17 ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-01-28 15:24 ` Amir Goldstein
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