On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:52 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:01 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > autofs v4 doesn't rely on mkdir never returning EACCESS just that it > > > return EEXIST if the directory exists. Never the less if the behavior of > > > stat will work in this case I'll change v4 to do it the way you suggest > > > (as v5 does already). > > > > Aaah. Wrong again! > > > > Although v5 doesn't attempt to mount an NFS export if the directory > > doesn't exist it does end up doing a mkdir later as the most common case > > is mounting an NFS export within an autofs filesystem or other, usually > > local filesystem. > > Then make sure that it only does this within the autofs filesystem. The > value of f_type as returned by statfs() should be able to tell you if > this is the case. > Yep. I've done that elsewhere. 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
