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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2014-10-24 00:14:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2014-10-24 00:14:36 +0200 |
| commit | 787fb6bc9682ec7c05fb5d9561b57100fbc1cc41 (patch) | |
| tree | fde11fbe9f87e95ef6078fcbfed5f55c9ba134f8 /fs | |
| parent | cbdf35bcb833bfd00f0925d7a9a33a21f41ea582 (diff) | |
| download | linux-787fb6bc9682ec7c05fb5d9561b57100fbc1cc41.tar.bz2 | |
vfs: add whiteout support
Whiteout isn't actually a new file type, but is represented as a char
device (Linus's idea) with 0/0 device number.
This has several advantages compared to introducing a new whiteout file
type:
- no userspace API changes (e.g. trivial to make backups of upper layer
filesystem, without losing whiteouts)
- no fs image format changes (you can boot an old kernel/fsck without
whiteout support and things won't break)
- implementation is trivial
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 77fd536106cb..d20191c0ebf5 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -4346,6 +4346,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(rename, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newna return sys_renameat2(AT_FDCWD, oldname, AT_FDCWD, newname, 0); } +int vfs_whiteout(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) +{ + int error = may_create(dir, dentry); + if (error) + return error; + + if (!dir->i_op->mknod) + return -EPERM; + + return dir->i_op->mknod(dir, dentry, + S_IFCHR | WHITEOUT_MODE, WHITEOUT_DEV); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_whiteout); + int readlink_copy(char __user *buffer, int buflen, const char *link) { int len = PTR_ERR(link); |