Re: [VFS-RFC] autofs4 and bind, rbind and move mount requests

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> > Perhaps not in this case.
> 
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
> 
> Are you talking about an automounted filesystem, or the autofs
> filesystem itself.

I'm talking about the autofs filesystem (actually the autofs4 module).

> 
> With the later I can well imagine that you have problems with bind and
> move.

yep.

I'm not really concerned about whether bind and move mounts work or not. I 
just need to establish whether these should be supported and if so, how 
they should work so I can resolve the problem. Personally, I would be 
happy to say these types of mounts are not supported by autofs if I could 
veto the requests.

atm I can easily panic the kernel. As I said, it would be fairly easy to 
fail silently but ....

There's not much in it but see:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4589

Sorry that my initial post was unclear and perhaps incomplete but mostly 
people are not that familiar with automounting and often they don't really 
want to know about it. I guess they have their own priorities.

Thanks for your interest.
Ian