On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:18:15PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > While this problem has been present for a long time I've avoided resolving > > it because it was not very visible. But now that autofs v5 has "mount and > > expire on demand" of nested multiple mounts, such as is found when > > mounting an export list from a server, solving the problem cannot be > > avoided any longer. > > > > I've tried very hard to find a way to do this entirely within the > > autofs4 module but have not been able to find a satisfactory way to > > achieve it. > > > > So, I need to propose a change to the VFS. > > NAK in that form. Care to explain what should happen to mount tree > when you do that to mountpoint? > The flag is never set if it a mount succeeds so there's never a tree under it. But that's only my usage, so point taken. Thinking about it that's not the only potential problem either. Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
