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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] shared subtrees
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:32:13 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:11:50AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> No - I have been missing a typo.  Make that "if mountpoint of what we
> are moving...".

OK, got it, so the point is that its not clear how you'd propagate the
removal of the subtree from the vfsmount of the source mountpoint.

By the way, I wrote up some notes this weekend in an attempt to explain
the shared subtrees RFC to myself.  They may or may not be helpful to
anyone else:

http://www.fieldses.org/~bfields/kernel/viro_mount_propagation.txt

--b.