From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
Cc: "Charles P. Wright" <cpwright@cpwright.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ezk@cs.sunysb.edu
Subject: Re: Sick VFS question
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:53:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E5BC9D3.8010102@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302251334430.32233-100000@guppy.limebrokerage.com>
Ion Badulescu wrote:
>
> Anyway, in that case, why couldn't autofs do the same kind of sick thing --
> even sicker: make a private copy of ext2's (or whatever) i_op table
> for that inode and replace only the follow_link method inside it with its
> own?
>
It seems a lot uglier than what I proposed, though. I would prefer not
to have to create such "hack inodes", especially since some filesystems
legitimately change their i_ops around with time.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-25 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-25 9:48 Sick VFS question H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-25 16:19 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-25 17:30 ` Charles P. Wright
2003-02-25 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-25 18:46 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-25 19:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-02-25 20:39 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-25 21:06 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-25 21:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-26 15:37 ` Erez Zadok
2003-02-26 15:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-06 16:53 ` David Chow
2003-03-06 17:18 ` Charles P. Wright
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