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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org>
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:06:42PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote:
> 
> As to your concern, in CURRENT this might be fixed already.  There, the 
> unionfs vnode doesn't have an object attached.  Instead, calls to 
> VOP_GETVOBJECT() get forwarded to the underlying file, so the same 
> object gets referred as for direct modifications of that file.  That 
> should rule out any coherency problems, IMHO.
> 
> Unfortunately, AFAIK, this fix has never been MFC'ed to 4-STABLE.  The 
> respective CVS commits are union_subr.c (rev. 1.51) and union_vnops.c 
> (rev. 1.82).

Any chances they will get merged before 4.11-RELEASE?

./danfe