Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265588AbUALQ26 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:28:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266203AbUALQ26 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:28:58 -0500 Received: from mail-10.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.42]:1462 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265588AbUALQ21 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:28:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:28:32 +0800 (WST) From: raven@themaw.net To: Mike Waychison cc: Jim Carter , autofs mailing list , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <40029C19.409@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1359 Lines: 44 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 raven@themaw.net wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > > > > >Transparency of an autofs filesystem (as I'm calling it) is the situation > > >where, given a map > > > > > >/usr /man1 server:/usr/man1 > > > /man2 server:/usr/man2 > > > > > >where the filesystem /usr contains, say a directory lib, that needs to be > > >available while also seeing the automounted directories. > > > > > > > > > > > I see. This requires direct mount triggers to do properly. Trying to > > do it with some sort of passthrough to the underlying filesystem is a > > nightmare waiting to happen.. > > > > So what are we saying here? > > We install triggers at /usr/man1 and /usr/man2. > Then suppose the map had a nobrowse option. > Does the trigger also take care of hiding man1 and man2? > > Is there some definition of these triggers? > And I have another question concerning namespaces. Given that there may be several namespaces, each of which may or may not have a trigger on this dentry, is there some sort of list of triggers? How do the triggers know who owns them? Ian - 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/