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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <openosd@gmail.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, NFS <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Should exportfs/mountd cope with case-insensitive directory names.
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 13:24:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140403172431.GB5884@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140403171625.GA5884@fieldses.org>

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:16:25PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> In the presence of bind mounts it's definitely possible for two
> different paths to reach the same directory.
> 
> I don't know if that's actually a problem here....

Without testing: if we've got the same filesystem mounted at /foo/bar
and /foo/baz, but only export /foo/bar, will this change make that
export show up at /foo/baz as well?

(Since we'll now consider /foo/bar and /foo/baz to match where
previously they didn't?)

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-03 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-03  5:46 Should exportfs/mountd cope with case-insensitive directory names NeilBrown
2014-04-03 13:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-04-03 16:02   ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-04-03 17:16     ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-04-03 17:24       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2014-04-03 21:21         ` NeilBrown
2014-04-03 21:36           ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-04-03 22:13             ` NeilBrown
2014-04-04 14:34               ` J. Bruce Fields

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