From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:08:44 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47696534.2060909@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47694B06.6090407@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> David Newall wrote:
>> Mark Lord wrote:
>>> But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems,
>>> where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working.
>>
>> I don't see it. You always can make hard link on the underlying
>> filesystem. If you need to make it on the bound mount, that is, if
>> you can't locate the underlying filesystem to make the hard link, you
>> can use a symbolic link.
> ..
>
> Where people run into trouble with this, is when they simply go to
> move a huge file (DVD image) from one directory to another,
> where the target happens to be on a different bind point of the
> same underlying filesystem.
Does that prevent you from seeing the underlying filesystem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-19 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-18 22:46 RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? Mark Lord
2007-12-18 22:57 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-18 23:00 ` Al Viro
2007-12-18 23:14 ` Al Viro
2007-12-19 3:54 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-19 3:59 ` David Newall
2007-12-19 16:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-19 18:38 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-12-29 2:53 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-29 3:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-29 6:02 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-29 6:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-29 8:29 ` David Newall
2007-12-29 16:18 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-29 20:35 ` David Newall
2007-12-29 20:40 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-30 3:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-30 3:55 ` dean gaudet
2007-12-27 3:43 ` Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
[not found] <9BTqk-2ck-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <9BTJN-2Sv-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <9BTTr-35L-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-12-19 13:43 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-12-19 14:23 ` Al Viro
2007-12-19 15:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2007-12-19 16:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-20 20:55 ` Bodo Eggert
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2007-12-20 1:33 linux
2007-12-20 2:06 ` Mark Lord
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