Nick Piggin wrote: > I guess you could have a flag in the vfsmount which you could then set > to have lookup_mnt (and hence follow_mount etc) ignore it. > > Unsetting / decrementing d_mounted I guess works, but I would just > be worried if other mounts can be attached to the dentry then you > might ignore that other mount or even follow your autofs mount.i The other thing worth mentioning is that these mounts are entirely managed by the user space daemon, no-one else can mount within the autofs fs (well almost), unless a privileged user space process deliberately uses ioctls to change that. 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