On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:34:42AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:36 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:19:17AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > Eh... Arbitrary limitations are fun, aren't they? > > > > > > But these mounts _are_ special. There is really no point in moving or > > > pivoting them. > > > > pivoting - probably true, moving... why not? > > Moving would be an implementation artefact that doesn't really > correspond to any useful operation on the filesyst > > AFAIK, most filesystems that have implemented subfiles (excepting > Reiser4 of course) do not allow you to rename or move the subfile > directory or its contents from one parent file to another. If that's about xattr and nothing else, colour me thoroughly uninterested. If it might have other interesting uses, OTOH... - 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
