From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755847AbZKGCME (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:12:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755232AbZKGCME (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:12:04 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:42861 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755072AbZKGCMC (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:12:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF4D76C.6090008@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:11:56 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand References: <1257249429-12384-12-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <20091104214938.GA21033@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > It isn't what I want but it is what the VFS requires. If let the vfs > continue on it's delusional state we will leak the vfs mount and > everything mounted on top of it, with no way to remove the mounts. This is caused by not having any way to prevent deletion on directories with submounts, right? How does other distributed filesystems deal with directories with submounts going away underneath it? Thanks. -- tejun