Re: bug in nfs in 2.6.18-rc5?

Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-31T16:26:56Z

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.