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From: Jacques Gelinas (jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca)
Date: Fri 01 Mar 2002 - 19:32:36 GMT


On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:46:22 -0500, Klavs Klavsen wrote
> On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:13, Mihai RUSU wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > While patching ctx8 against 2.4.17 I have noticed that it does patch some
> > files in the fs/ext2 and fs/ext3 directories:
> > patching file linux-2.4.17/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
> > patching file linux-2.4.17/fs/ext2/inode.c
> > patching file linux-2.4.17/fs/ext2/ioctl.c
> > patching file linux-2.4.17/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
> > patching file linux-2.4.17/fs/ext3/inode.c
> > patching file linux-2.4.17/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
> >
> > What is this for? If I use some other fs I miss some vserver features?
> My guess, would be the adding of the immutable-unlink flag?
> and the features that this enables (allowing vserver users to alter the
> unified files - which then get un-unified).

yes and the patch is pretty limited. It simply maps the immutable-unlink bit
to an unused bit in ext2/ext3. It does not affect how the filesystem works.
Almost cosmetic

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Jacques Gelinas <jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca>
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http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc


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