From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:09:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:08:53 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:28179 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:08:11 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256? Date: 19 Jan 2002 14:07:51 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200201182033.g0IKXE2R004723@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2002 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200201182033.g0IKXE2R004723@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de> By author: Horst von Brand In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The SunOS automounter (which we used before Solaris) did this too. It was a > pain in the neck, as the "real" path to the home does show through, and you > get the same problems with scripts &c containing physical, not logical, > paths to files. Fixing the _users_ is much harder than fixing up the > configurations... > However, with vfsbinds this is not an issue. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt