Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264389AbUAIVg4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:36:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264394AbUAIVg4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:36:56 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:46342 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264389AbUAIVgv (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:36:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFF1EC4.7080406@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:36:04 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Waychison CC: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Ian Kent , autofs mailing list , "Ogden, Aaron A." , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs References: <3FFC96FE.9050002@zytor.com> <20040108183135.GE30321@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3FFF03EA.4060603@sun.com> <3FFF07B2.70801@zytor.com> <3FFF1DA7.8060005@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <3FFF1DA7.8060005@sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 18 Mike Waychison wrote: > > Unless I'm missing something, implementing this as a seperate filesystem > type still has the appropriate atomicity guarantees as long as the VFS > support complex expiry, whereby userspace would tag submounts as being > part of the overall expiry for a base mountpoint. > It would, but it seems like a vastly more invasive change to the VFS than ought to be necessary. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/