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Re: fuse - uninitialized root inode
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Czech Republic
2007-07-18 12:29:51
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> To be honest, I trust more the aufs code then the
fuse code, so I think 
>> it's probably a problem of FUSE which still doesn't
initialize the 
>> mountpoint properly? Maybe not, I don't know. Would
you please review 
>> the code to make sure the filesystem is properly
initialized even prior 
>> the first 'stat'?
> 
> Because stat() calls the filesystem's ->getattr()
method, which
> refreshes the attributes.
> 
> Fuse assumes that ->getattr() is called before the
file attributes are
> used, and aufs is breaking this assumption.
> 
> Which I think is a bug in aufs, as it could break on
_other_
> filesystems which define ->getattr() as well.
> 
> Miklos
> 

Thank you for your opinion regarding this. I'll contact aufs
author and 
tell him this 

Tomas M

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