On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:22:28AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > No it shouldn't. The struct file contains other stateful information > from the open() call (such as authentication info) that needs to be > passed into readdir. Which is exactly that problem this tries to solve. Once you have union mounts you'll have a single open file descriptor for multiple actual directories. Beause of that you can't simply attach to the state to the struct file but have to keep it in a different way. - 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