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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Implement unionmount on top of unionfs
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Implement unionmount on top of unionfs |
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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:35:39 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:59:18PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> This implementation of unionmount implements lazy translator startup,
> because it is impossible to start the mountee during the
> initialization of unionfs. The reason is that most translators (at
> least) try to stat their underlying node, i.e. invoke an RPC on it. If
> the mountee is started during unionfs initialization phase, it invokes
> an RPC on the proxy node provided by unionfs, but unionfs cannot
> process it appropriately, because it has not yet finished initializing
> itself (deadlock).
So it's absolutely impossible to start the mountee before the translator
startup is finished? That would be unfortunate, as we can't pass back
error codes to settrans that way...
-antrik-
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the ``--mount'' command line option, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the ``--mount'' command line option, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/06/15
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the ``--mount'' command line option, Carl Fredrik Hammar, 2009/06/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the ``--mount'' command line option, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/06/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the ``--mount'' command line option, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/06/29
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the ``--mount'' command line option, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/06/29
[PATCH 2/3] Add the code for starting up the mountee, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/06/11
[PATCH 3/3] Add the code for adding the mountee to the merged filesystems, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/06/11
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Implement unionmount on top of unionfs,
olafBuddenhagen <=