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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] shared subtrees
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:32:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117193206.GH24830@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EC1253.8080902@sun.com>

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:30:27PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
> Well, if I understand it correctly:
> 
> (assuming /foo is vfsmount A)
> 
> $> mount --make-shared /foo
> 
> will make A->A
> 
> $> mount --bind /foo /foo/bar
> 
> will create a vfsmount B based off A, but because A is in a p-node,
> A->B, B->A.
> 
> Then, we attach B to A in the vfsmount tree, but because A->B in the
> propagation tree, B also gets a vfsmount C added on dentry 'bar'.
> Recurse ad infinitum.
> 
> Make sense?

Yes, but couldn't the whole thing be avoided if we just agreed that the
propagation wasn't set up till after B was attached to A?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-17 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-13 22:18 [RFC] shared subtrees Al Viro
2005-01-13 23:30 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-14  0:19   ` Al Viro
2005-01-14  1:11 ` Erez Zadok
2005-01-14  1:38   ` Al Viro
2005-01-16  0:46 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-16  0:51   ` Al Viro
2005-01-16 16:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-16 18:06   ` Al Viro
2005-01-16 18:42     ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-17  6:11       ` Al Viro
2005-01-17 17:32         ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-25 21:07           ` Ram
2005-01-25 21:47             ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-25 21:55               ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-25 23:56                 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-25 22:02               ` Ram
2005-02-01 23:37                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-02-02  1:37                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-02-01 23:21             ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-02-02 18:36               ` Ram
2005-02-02 19:45                 ` Mike Waychison
2005-02-02 20:33                   ` Ram
2005-02-02 21:08                     ` Mike Waychison
2005-02-02 21:25                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-02-02 21:33                         ` Mike Waychison
2005-02-02 21:48                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-04-05  9:37         ` Ram
2005-01-17 18:31 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-17 19:00   ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-17 19:30     ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-17 19:32       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2005-01-17 20:11         ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-17 20:39           ` Al Viro
2005-01-18 19:44             ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-17 21:21           ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-01-28 22:31 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-29  4:40   ` raven
2005-01-31 17:19     ` Mike Waychison
2005-02-01  1:31       ` Ian Kent
2005-02-01  2:28   ` Ram
2005-02-01  7:02     ` Mike Waychison
2005-02-01 19:27       ` Ram
2005-02-01 21:15         ` Mike Waychison
2005-02-01 23:33           ` Ram
2005-02-02  2:10           ` J. Bruce Fields

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