From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:40:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20070523124013.GV4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20070522221045.GH4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070523070306.GM4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070523073658.GO4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <1179923682.6480.18.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:59908 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754645AbXEWMkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 08:40:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1179923682.6480.18.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:34:42AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:36 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:19:17AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > Eh... Arbitrary limitations are fun, aren't they? > > > > > > But these mounts _are_ special. There is really no point in moving or > > > pivoting them. > > > > pivoting - probably true, moving... why not? > > Moving would be an implementation artefact that doesn't really > correspond to any useful operation on the filesyst > > AFAIK, most filesystems that have implemented subfiles (excepting > Reiser4 of course) do not allow you to rename or move the subfile > directory or its contents from one parent file to another. If that's about xattr and nothing else, colour me thoroughly uninterested. If it might have other interesting uses, OTOH...