On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:00 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are > > triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry > > must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the > > trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately. > > What are the conditions that lead us here in that case? A multi-mount that has no root mount gets a lookup for an offset that doesn't exist (ie. the trigger hasn't been mounted). Then ->lookup() will create a negative dentry and send a mount request to the daemon. It is a bit of a special case but it helps a little. 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
