On Jan 9, 2014, at 13:59, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The nfs code will currently construct a devname to show in places like > /proc/mounts by turning a dentry into a path. Unfortunately, that's > somewhat problematic if the user ended up mounting through a symlink on > the server. The devname that then shows up in /proc/mounts now doesn't > match the one that was originally passed into the mount request. This is 100% according to design. Why is it suddenly a problem? By displaying the original pathname, you also end up bypassing referral resolution, etc. This is exactly why the .show_devname operation was introduced in the first place. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer -- 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
