From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill Kuvaldin <kuvkir@epsmu.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isofs: mounting to regular file may succeed
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:08:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717070814.GA10395@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717000407.4c854ec8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:04:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I don't think any (all?) other filesystems perform checks like this.
> Is this something which can/should be performed at the VFS level?
As far as the VFS is concerned non-directory mounts are perfectly fine.
There's a lot of use cases for non-directory bind-mounts and at least
some for regular filesystems with a non-directory root. E.g. the streams
folks are using something like that. Solaris even ships with non-directory
root filesystems mounted by default these days.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 23:47 [PATCH] isofs: mounting to regular file may succeed Kirill Kuvaldin
2007-07-14 8:57 ` Kirill Kuvaldin
2007-07-14 19:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-15 9:36 ` Kirill Kuvaldin
2007-07-17 7:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 7:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-07-17 7:45 ` Al Viro
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