From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Delays on "first" access to a NFS mount Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:54:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20070316215429.GG4538@fieldses.org> References: <20070307194418.97fee0ec.simon.peter@gmx.de> <20070307205016.GI26553@fieldses.org> <20070307211729.GO26553@fieldses.org> <20070307215406.GR26553@fieldses.org> <17903.16030.26119.464793@notabene.brown> <20070307230601.GX26553@fieldses.org> <20070316214737.GA3253@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Neil Brown , "Talpey, Thomas" , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Simon Peter To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HSKNh-0004w3-Rn for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:54:38 -0700 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214] helo=fieldses.org) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HSKNi-0005Ot-MX for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:54:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20070316214737.GA3253@infradead.org> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:47:38PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > - using namespace and the kernel mount code means we need to have > at least enough information on where these mount points are in > kernel space. > - it does however not mean that we need to set up all these mount > points at boot time! We have a nice scheme to creates mounts > when a special follow_link operation that is for example used > in the nfs client for submount, or we could have some sort > of automounter that does userspace upcalls. Note that clients may access filesystems by traversing mountpoints, but they may also just jump in with a filehandle they got on a previous boot. So we still need to be able to look up exports by filehandle as well as by path. --b. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs