On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:45:30PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The NFS client is constructing the namespace as it walks the path using > the ->follow_link() trick to automount new filesystems. As long as we > can add a mount namespace argument to do_add_mount(), then we should be > able to make use of a namespace in struct nameidata. *wince* Theoretically doable, practically can get ugly. > The other thing we'd need is a 'root' path argument to ensure that > __vfs_follow_link() does the right thing when presented with an absolute > symlink. The only problem I see with this is that we'll get root vfsmount/dentry refcount jerked on *all* lookups now, instead of just the absolute ones... -- 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
