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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, steved@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com,
	nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:52:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157460777.5621.8.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157439691.4133.12.camel@raven.themaw.net>

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:01 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> > autofs v4 doesn't rely on mkdir never returning EACCESS just that it
> > return EEXIST if the directory exists. Never the less if the behavior of
> > stat will work in this case I'll change v4 to do it the way you suggest
> > (as v5 does already). 
> 
> Aaah. Wrong again!
> 
> Although v5 doesn't attempt to mount an NFS export if the directory
> doesn't exist it does end up doing a mkdir later as the most common case
> is mounting an NFS export within an autofs filesystem or other, usually
> local filesystem.

Then make sure that it only does this within the autofs filesystem. The
value of f_type as returned by statfs() should be able to tell you if
this is the case.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-05 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30 19:31 [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] David Howells
2006-08-30 19:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] FS-Cache: Provide a filesystem-specific sync'able page bit " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] FS-Cache: Release page->private after failed readahead " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] NFS: Use local caching " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] FS-Cache: CacheFiles: ia64: missing copy_page export " David Howells
2006-08-30 19:52 ` [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing " Andrew Morton
2006-08-30 20:37   ` David Howells
2006-08-30 20:55     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31  9:58       ` David Howells
2006-08-31 17:21         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 17:26           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-31 17:42           ` David Howells
2006-08-31 18:04             ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 13:08           ` David Howells
2006-09-01 16:34             ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 17:00               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-02  2:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02  4:11                   ` Ian Kent
2006-09-02  5:58                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-03  6:21                       ` Ian Kent
2006-09-03  6:30                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-03  6:43                           ` Ian Kent
2006-09-03 16:58                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-04  2:23                               ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04  5:40                               ` Ian Kent
2006-09-02  4:49                   ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 11:52                   ` David Howells
2006-09-04 11:52                   ` David Howells
2006-09-04 13:24                     ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 13:46                       ` David Howells
2006-09-04 15:00                         ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  4:11                         ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  4:17                           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  1:57                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  2:55                         ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  3:50                           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  4:03                             ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  4:53                               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  6:06                                 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  7:01                                   ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 12:52                                     ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-09-06  4:54                                       ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  9:40                                   ` David Howells
2006-09-05 10:20                                     ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 10:37                                       ` David Howells
2006-09-05 12:20                                         ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05 13:38                                           ` David Howells
2006-09-06  4:58                                             ` Ian Kent
2006-09-06  9:51                                               ` David Howells
2006-09-06 12:46                                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-06 13:24                                                   ` David Howells
2006-09-07  5:30                                                     ` Ian Kent
2006-09-07  6:17                                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-07  7:40                                                         ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  9:48                           ` David Howells
2006-09-05 10:14                             ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  9:57                         ` David Howells
2006-09-05 12:47                           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 12:53                             ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05 13:40                               ` David Howells
2006-09-06 10:27                             ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  2:23                     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  3:01                       ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  4:05                         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  4:06                       ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  4:57                         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-05  6:45                           ` Ian Kent
2006-09-05  7:07                             ` Ian Kent
2006-09-04 18:20               ` David Howells

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