On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
[AFS, CIFS and NFS maintainers added to Cc]
       * WTF is CIFS doing setting MNT_SHRINKABLE on *parent* vfsmount?
Blindly, not even bothering to cooperate with mnt_make_readonly() and
its ilk.  Most of all, _why_?  It's child that should be marked so, not
the parent...

Yes. Looks like a bug. Thanks for spotting this.  Doublechecking with Igor (who wrote this section).

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Thanks,

Steve