From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:25:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060621122523.GX27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606210618.k5L6IFDr008176@raven.themaw.net>
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:18:15PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> While this problem has been present for a long time I've avoided resolving
> it because it was not very visible. But now that autofs v5 has "mount and
> expire on demand" of nested multiple mounts, such as is found when
> mounting an export list from a server, solving the problem cannot be
> avoided any longer.
>
> I've tried very hard to find a way to do this entirely within the
> autofs4 module but have not been able to find a satisfactory way to
> achieve it.
>
> So, I need to propose a change to the VFS.
NAK in that form. Care to explain what should happen to mount tree
when you do that to mountpoint?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-21 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-21 6:18 [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate Ian Kent
2006-06-21 6:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21 13:07 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-21 13:39 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-23 4:14 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-23 4:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 6:43 ` Ian Kent
2006-07-10 10:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-10 16:23 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2006-06-21 12:25 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-06-21 13:05 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-21 13:37 ` [autofs] " Jeff Moyer
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