From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, steved@redhat.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com,
nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:53:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157460815.5621.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157460472.5621.3.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:47 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:57 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> >
> > > Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place?
> >
> > I think the problems it is solving are these:
> >
> > (1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported?
> >
> > (2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not
> > accessible?
> >
> >
> > In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the
> > autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that.
>
> That is fine. As long as it is doing so in the _autofs_ filesystem. A
> call to 'stat()' should suffice to tell if this is the case.
I meant statfs().
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, steved@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:53:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157460815.5621.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157460472.5621.3.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:47 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:57 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> >
> > > Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place?
> >
> > I think the problems it is solving are these:
> >
> > (1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported?
> >
> > (2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not
> > accessible?
> >
> >
> > In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the
> > autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that.
>
> That is fine. As long as it is doing so in the _autofs_ filesystem. A
> call to 'stat()' should suffice to tell if this is the case.
I meant statfs().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-30 19:31 [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] David Howells
2006-08-30 19:31 ` David Howells
2006-08-30 19:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] FS-Cache: Provide a filesystem-specific sync'able page bit " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:31 ` [PATCH 2/7] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] FS-Cache: Release page->private after failed readahead " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] NFS: Use local caching " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] FS-Cache: CacheFiles: ia64: missing copy_page export " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] FS-Cache: CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:52 ` [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing " Andrew Morton
2006-08-30 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-30 20:37 ` David Howells
2006-08-30 20:37 ` David Howells
2006-08-30 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 9:58 ` David Howells
2006-08-31 9:58 ` David Howells
2006-08-31 17:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 17:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 17:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-31 17:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-31 17:42 ` David Howells
2006-08-31 17:42 ` David Howells
2006-08-31 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 13:08 ` David Howells
2006-09-01 13:08 ` David Howells
2006-09-01 16:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 16:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 17:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-01 17:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-02 2:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 2:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 4:11 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-02 4:11 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-02 5:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 5:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-03 6:21 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-03 6:21 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-03 6:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-03 6:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-03 6:43 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-03 6:43 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-03 16:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-03 16:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-04 2:23 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 2:23 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 5:40 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-02 4:49 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-02 4:49 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 11:52 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 11:52 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 11:52 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 11:52 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 13:24 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 13:24 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 13:46 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 13:46 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 15:00 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 15:00 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:11 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:11 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 4:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 1:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 1:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 2:55 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 2:55 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 3:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 3:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 4:03 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:03 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 4:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 6:06 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 6:06 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 7:01 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 7:01 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 12:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-06 4:54 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-06 4:54 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 9:40 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 9:40 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 10:20 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 10:20 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 10:37 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 10:37 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 12:20 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 12:20 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 13:38 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 13:38 ` David Howells
2006-09-06 4:58 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-06 4:58 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-06 9:51 ` David Howells
2006-09-06 9:51 ` David Howells
2006-09-06 12:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-06 12:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-06 13:24 ` David Howells
2006-09-06 13:24 ` David Howells
2006-09-07 5:30 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-07 5:30 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-07 6:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-07 6:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-07 7:40 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 9:48 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 9:48 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 10:14 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 9:57 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 9:57 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 12:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 12:53 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-09-05 12:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 13:40 ` David Howells
2006-09-06 10:27 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-06 10:27 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 2:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 3:01 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 3:01 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 4:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 4:06 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:06 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 4:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 6:45 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 6:45 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 7:07 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 7:07 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 18:20 ` David Howells
2006-09-04 18:20 ` David Howells
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