From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765039AbYEESqs (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 14:46:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762585AbYEESeX (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 14:34:23 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:48415 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760675AbYEESeW (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 14:34:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:34:20 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Enrico Weigelt Cc: linux kernel list Subject: Re: VFS + path walktrough Message-ID: <20080505183420.GQ5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20080505124041.GB32019@nibiru.local> <20080505130623.GC32019@nibiru.local> <20080505131307.GM5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080505134315.GF32019@nibiru.local> <20080505153501.GN5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080505171425.GO5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080505174048.GP5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080505182308.GG32019@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080505182308.GG32019@nibiru.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:23:09PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Assuming the server doesn't resolve symlinks itself, Um... What the hell are you talking about? How _can_ server resolve symlinks, when result of symlink resolution depends on where the damn thing is mounted on client and even how deeply the process trying to do lookup happens to be chrooted? It wouldn't work even for relative symlinks - remember that we might bloody well have something bound on the middle of the path in question. Without any knowledge by fs. > Naive question: is it really *necessary* to have all the > intermediate dirs in dcache ? The answer's "yes".