Quoting Tejun Heo (tj@xxxxxxxxxx): > Hello, > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > It isn't what I want but it is what the VFS requires. If let the vfs > > continue on it's delusional state we will leak the vfs mount and > > everything mounted on top of it, with no way to remove the mounts. > > This is caused by not having any way to prevent deletion on > directories with submounts, right? How does other distributed > filesystems deal with directories with submounts going away underneath > it? Ooooh. I see, I was thinking only about the rename case, and forgot this was the path for deleted files, too. For the rename case it should be ok to let the dentry be put since the submounts will be accessible at the new location, right? Should that be handled separately? -serge -- 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
