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From: linux-kernel@ton.iguana.be (Ton Hospel)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: symlink_prefix
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 02:31:56 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fhgas$6pr$1@post.home.lunix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106041228.IAA08746@mailer.progressive-comp.com>

In article <200106041228.IAA08746@mailer.progressive-comp.com>,
	Hank Leininger <linux-kernel@progressive-comp.com> writes:
> On 2001-06-03, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> 
>> Suppose I have devices /dev/a, /dev/b, /dev/c that contain the
>> /, /usr and /usr/spool filesystems for FOO OS. Now
>>         mount /dev/a /mnt -o symlink_prefix=/mnt
>>         mount /dev/b /mnt/usr -o symlink_prefix=/mnt
>>         mount /dev/c /mnt/usr/spool -o symlink_prefix=/mnt
> 
> Cool.
> 
> What happens when someone creates new absolute symlinks under /mnt ?
> Will/should the magic /mnt/ header be stripped from any symlink created
> under such a path-translated volume?  The answer is probably 'yes', but
> either one violates POLA :(
> 
I think the semantics should be these that are used in the old usespace
nfsd for the "link_relative" option. That one had very intuitive semantics
and behaved sanely even if you had insane recursive machine crossmounts

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-04 12:28 symlink_prefix Hank Leininger
2001-06-05  2:31 ` Ton Hospel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-03 17:37 symlink_prefix Andries.Brouwer
2001-06-03 16:36 symlink_prefix Andries.Brouwer
2001-06-03 17:19 ` symlink_prefix Alexander Viro
2001-06-04 22:05   ` symlink_prefix Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-03 15:10 symlink_prefix Andries.Brouwer
2001-06-03 15:27 ` symlink_prefix Alexander Viro
2001-06-03 10:53 symlink_prefix Andries.Brouwer
2001-06-03 11:25 ` symlink_prefix Alexander Viro
2001-06-04 11:53   ` symlink_prefix Remi Turk
2001-06-05 12:43   ` symlink_prefix Pavel Machek
2001-06-07  1:00   ` symlink_prefix Edgar Toernig
2001-06-07  1:19     ` symlink_prefix Alexander Viro
2001-06-07  3:43       ` symlink_prefix Edgar Toernig
2001-06-02 23:54 symlink_prefix Andries.Brouwer
2001-06-03  0:23 ` symlink_prefix Robert Love
2001-06-03  0:49 ` symlink_prefix Alexander Viro
2001-06-03  1:00   ` symlink_prefix Mitchell Blank Jr

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