From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [RFC] shared subtrees Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:25:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20050202212557.GC3879@fieldses.org> References: <20050116180656.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050116184209.GD13624@fieldses.org> <20050117061150.GS26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050117173213.GC24830@fieldses.org> <1106687232.3298.37.camel@localhost> <20050201232106.GA22118@fieldses.org> <1107369381.5992.73.camel@localhost> <42012DE7.4080003@sun.com> <1107376434.5992.113.camel@localhost> <42014150.9090500@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ram , Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214]:62139 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262445AbVBBV0D (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:26:03 -0500 To: Mike Waychison Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42014150.9090500@sun.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:08:32PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > Well, fwiw, I have the same kind of race in autofsng. I counter it by > building up the vfsmount tree elsewhere and mount --move'ing it. > > Unfortunately, the RFC states that moving a shared vfsmount is > prohibited (for which the reasoning slips my mind). See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=110594248826226&w=2 As I understand it, the problem isn't sharing of the vfsmount being moved, but sharing of the vfsmount on which that vfsmount is mounted.--b.