From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:59:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:59:18 -0400 Received: from schmee.sfgoth.com ([63.205.85.133]:38660 "EHLO schmee.sfgoth.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:59:06 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:00:37 -0700 From: Mitchell Blank Jr To: Alexander Viro Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: symlink_prefix Message-ID: <20010602180037.B49864@sfgoth.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:49:03PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander Viro wrote: > I can see how to implement per-mountpoint variant. However, I'm > less than enthusiastic about the API side of that and about the > ugliness it will lead to. It smells like a wrong approach. And > no, I don't see a good one right now. Aren't we one day going to have stackable filesystems? This looks like an idea for a trivial translation filesystem to me. -Mitch