Re: bug in nfs in 2.6.18-rc5?

Trond Myklebust
2006-08-31T17:34:06Z

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 17:26 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:03:50PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > If we're to provide the ability for unionfs to use lookup_one_len() on
> > NFS, then we will have to error out whenever we hit a case where we
> > should be creating a new mountpoint. Is that acceptable?
>
> Not at all. unionfs will have to pass down proper lookup intents.
> The ecryptfs developers have started looking into making that work
> with stackable filesystems, and the unionfs developers should follow
> that effort.

Good. I fully agree that this is preferable.

Cheers,
Trond