From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> --- fs/namei.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1039eef0e22c..413d7c138e95 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -4323,6 +4323,20 @@ 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); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 9d821253379d..88ec7a2878bc 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ typedef void (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset, #define ATTR_TIMES_SET (1 << 16) /* + * Whiteout is represented by a char device. The following constants define the + * mode and device number to use. + */ +#define WHITEOUT_MODE 0 +#define WHITEOUT_DEV 0 + +/* * This is the Inode Attributes structure, used for notify_change(). It * uses the above definitions as flags, to know which values have changed. * Also, in this manner, a Filesystem can look at only the values it cares @@ -1387,6 +1394,7 @@ extern int vfs_link(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct ino extern int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *, struct dentry *); extern int vfs_unlink(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode **); extern int vfs_rename(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode **, unsigned int); +extern int vfs_whiteout(struct inode *, struct dentry *); /* * VFS dentry helper functions. @@ -1611,6 +1619,9 @@ struct super_operations { #define IS_AUTOMOUNT(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_AUTOMOUNT) #define IS_NOSEC(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_NOSEC) +#define IS_WHITEOUT(inode) (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && \ + (inode)->i_rdev == WHITEOUT_DEV) + /* * Inode state bits. Protected by inode->i_lock * -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
