Re: Your CVS fix 1.109 to union_vnops.c

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_nsu.ru>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:40:32 +0700
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:06:42PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote:
> 
> As to your concern, in CURRENT this might be fixed already.  There, the 
> unionfs vnode doesn't have an object attached.  Instead, calls to 
> VOP_GETVOBJECT() get forwarded to the underlying file, so the same 
> object gets referred as for direct modifications of that file.  That 
> should rule out any coherency problems, IMHO.
> 
> Unfortunately, AFAIK, this fix has never been MFC'ed to 4-STABLE.  The 
> respective CVS commits are union_subr.c (rev. 1.51) and union_vnops.c 
> (rev. 1.82).

Any chances they will get merged before 4.11-RELEASE?

./danfe
Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 10:40:51 UTC

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