On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:47 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:57 +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place? > > > > I think the problems it is solving are these: > > > > (1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported? > > > > (2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not > > accessible? > > > > > > In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the > > autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that. > > That is fine. As long as it is doing so in the _autofs_ filesystem. A > call to 'stat()' should suffice to tell if this is the case. I meant statfs(). - 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
