From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763643AbYEFNK6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 09:10:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757240AbYEFNKe (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 09:10:34 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:35634 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762503AbYEFNKd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 09:10:33 -0400 Message-ID: <482058C4.8010104@davidnewall.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:40:28 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com CC: Ulrich Drepper , bsn.0007@gmail.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Jan Blunck , Erez Zadok , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Christoph Hellwig , Mingming Cao , Dave Hansen , Trond Myklebust , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Union Mount: glibc readdir support References: <20080429133201.GA9938@localhost.localdomain> <20080429133346.GB9938@localhost.localdomain> <48195E69.3030701@redhat.com> <20080506042117.GA29298@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20080506042117.GA29298@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bharata B Rao wrote: > Is dis-allowing NFS-exporting of unions an option ? Is it that simple? What about a union further in an NFS export? What about union-mounting after the tree has been NFS-exported? If the kernel won't fully merge unions then FS servers have to do whatever it is that's being proposed for glibc.