Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is this something others need? Not as far as I know... I think autofs is the only one doing out-of-kernel automounting. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be provided, though... > Again, the exists vs not yet exists case for paths within indirect > autofs mounts. At the moment I can just set the flag on all dentrys in > the autofs fs and return EXDEV for non-empty directories in order to > return the dentry as a path component. OTOH if the dentry is a mount > embeded in the path and the mount fails we get a error return. Seems redundant, but I'd say go with it for now. Maybe we can offload S_AUTOMOUNT to the dentry. > I could clear the flag on non-root parent dentrys during mkdir if this > is needed by others. I'm not sure that would actually matter, since it would come to follow_automount() at the same place. Note that someone who tries to stat() with AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT will cause the call to d_automount() to be suppressed and will see the negative or non-mounted directory. That might be okay for you. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
