[Unionfs] Re: rw nfs branch (Re: unionfs root on nfs)

[Shaya Potter]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 06:26 +0900, hooanon05 at yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> Guten Morgen Herr Jansen.
> 
> Hans-Peter Jansen:
> > I'm desperately seeking a (short time) fix for the /proc problem to get 
> > my SuSE 9.3 diskless NFS setup going until the unionfs crew come along 
> > with an "official" fix. How did you solved this in your environment? 
> > Still based on this patch? The "statically linking" order isn't very 
> > appealing, since I try very hard to keep the distribution kernel 
> > untouched, if possible somehow.
> 
> Current unionfs can handle hard link under nfs branch corrrectly, so we
> don't need the "nfs link patch" anymore, nor static link.
> About /proc soft link problem, I guess Shaya Potter's mmap patch is the
> answer. But I didn't try it and it seems to be needed some fixing, for
> example lseek at readdir.

ooo, please point out problems.  

I'm unsure why readdir should be a problem though, I only should be
touching read()/write()/readpage()/writepage() code paths, don't see why
that would break readdir?

please point out hte problem, as I don't want to hit it in the
future :).