Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:13:03 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, greghk@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:07:38PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > What out of tree filesystem, and what the heck is it doing?
> 
> MVFS, as was correctly guessed from my diff.  It is providing a view into
> a source-code control system, so that a given process can specify the
> version it wishes to see.  Yes, different processes then see a different
> filesystem tree at the same mount point.

We have that in the VFS as namespace and it has no business in a filesystem
driver.  And we have been telling this for more than a year.

> > Without proper explanation it's vetoed.
> 
> What additional explanation are you looking for?

The explanation is so good that we can veto that patch with a reason,
as it should really be obvious to you an anyone involved.

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