On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:58 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:45:34PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > The following two patches attempt to improve NFSv4's ability to look up > > the mount path on a remote server. > > > > The first patch adds VFS support for walking the remote path, using a > > temporary mount namespace to represent the server's namespace, so that > > symlinks > > I'm a bit confused about the symlink case--I take it you're assuming > that symlinks in the pseudofs should be interpreted as relative to the > server's namespace (in keeping with traditional implementations of > server exports), while symlinks elsewhere should continue to be > intepreted relative to the client's namespace. > > Do the rfc's say anything about this? No, the RFCs say nothing, but interpreting symlinks as being relative to the server namespace would be consistent with the mount behaviour of NFSv2/v3. It also makes me uncomfortable to have a remote mount path that could refer back to the client's namespace: that would not be an NFS mount, but a local bind mount... -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
