From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752646AbXIDIDh (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:03:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751861AbXIDIDZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:03:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39012 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751680AbXIDIDY (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:03:24 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <000701c7eb49$cff701c0$6fe50540$@com> <1188513433.6626.24.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1188577275.6649.133.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> To: Linus Torvalds Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Trond Myklebust , Frank van Maarseveen , Hua Zhong , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 22.1.50 Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:02:51 +0100 Message-ID: <6053.1188892971@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > In other words, let's assume that the user has /some/nfs/mount mounted > over NFS, and wants to re-mount it (or even just a subset of it) somewhere > else, the sane thing to do is not to mount it again, but to just do What about a superset? What about two intersecting sets? Bind mounts aren't quite it for this problem, and in any case your suggestion of: