The following series is a resend of a set of patches that were originally targetted for inclusion in 2.6.30-rc1. They build upon Al Viro's "Cache root in nameidata" patches, and add the ability to create a private mount namespace that is not visible to user processes. As stated before, the goal is to allow reuse of vfs_path_lookup() in order to allow the nfs client to walk down NFSv4 mount paths, and locate the directory that needs to be mounted. There have been no further comments on these patches since I mailed the last revision, so I'm hoping that Al and Christoph will ack them and that Linus will apply... Cheers Trond --- Trond Myklebust (5): NFS: Correct the NFS mount path when following a referral NFS: Fix nfs_path() to always return a '/' at the beginning of the path NFSv4: Replace nfs4_path_walk() with VFS path lookup in a private namespace VFS: Add VFS helper functions for setting up private namespaces VFS: Uninline the function put_mnt_ns() fs/namespace.c | 53 +++++++++-- fs/nfs/namespace.c | 5 + fs/nfs/super.c | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- include/linux/mnt_namespace.h | 10 -- 4 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- Signature -- 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