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Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount

From James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount
Date 2017-02-06 16:20 +0100
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On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 09:50 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 10:46:23PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Yes, I know the problem.  However, I believe most current linux
> > filesystems no longer guarantee stable, for the lifetime of the 
> > file, inode numbers.  The usual docker container root is overlayfs,
> > which, similarly doesn't support stable inode numbers.  I see the 
> > odd complaint about docker with overlayfs having unstable inode
> > numbers, but none seems to have any serious repercussions.
> 
> Um, no.  Most current linux file systems *do* guarantee stable inode
> numbers.  For one thing, NFS would break horribly if you didn't have
> stable inode numbers.  Never mind applications which depend on POSIX
> semantics.  And you wouldn't be able to save games in rogue or
> nethack, either.  :-)

I believe that's why we have the superblock export operations to
manufacture unique filehandles in the absence of inode number
stability.  The generic one uses inode numbers, but it doesn't have to.
 I thought reiserfs (if we can go back that far) was the first
generally used filesystem that didn't guarantee stable inode numbers,
so we have a lot of historical precedence.

Thanks to reiserfs, I thought we also iterated to weak stability
guarantees for inode numbers which mean no inconsistencies in
applications that use inode numbers for caching?  It's still not POSIX,
but I thought it was good enough for most use cases.

> Overlayfs may not, currently, but it's considered a bug.

James

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Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-04 20:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 09:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-06 02:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 08:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-06 15:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 04:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 07:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-06 17:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-06 07:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-02-06 16:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-06 16:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount lkml@pengaru.com - 2017-02-06 16:40 +0100
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          Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2017-02-06 23:00 +0100
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              Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2017-02-07 02:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-07 20:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-07 20:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 17:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-07 10:20 +0100
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      Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-07 11:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-07 17:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 19:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-07 19:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-07 20:10 +0100
            Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-07 21:00 +0100
              Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-07 21:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 22:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-07 23:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-08 00:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> - 2017-02-08 08:00 +0100
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                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-08 16:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-08 16:30 +0100
              Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2017-02-08 03:00 +0100
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