On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wrong. Miklos's patch introduces new behaviour that was never present > previously: Look at the big picture. The real damage wasn't done my Miklos, and that's something you don't seem to understand. So stop with the crazy "just revert" crap. That's not how it works. If you want to talk about reverts, then you need to go all the way back to the follow_link behavior. Afaik, the closest we can get to old behavior is just checking LOOKUP_DIRECTORY. We might want to check LOOKUP_OPEN too and that solves your "whaa, whaah, it might be a file" thing. But neither stat nor lstat used to auto-mount with autofs (and quite frankly, some NFS-side automounting should strive to look the same, imgo). So please *understand* the problem I have already. My problem is that you seem to think "revert miklos" just fixes all the issues and is some "safe" approach. It just re-introduces the *original* regression. Linus -- 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