On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:01 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I suspect the right answer here is to make nfs mount handling smarter. > The way mounting works the filesystem is allowed to choose whether it > can re-used a superblock or needs a new one. In the NFS case we probably > want to allow multiple superblocks for the same export if important > paramaters like the security model mismatch. It might also be another application for layering. If I were able to share enough of the inode and dentry information between superblocks, then all sorts of interesting possibilities arise... Cheers Trond - 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