Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261329AbVDMM5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261332AbVDMM5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:57:24 -0400 Received: from cimice4.lam.cz ([212.71.168.94]:17810 "EHLO vagabond.light.src") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261329AbVDMM5C (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:57:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:56:09 +0200 From: Jan Hudec To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: jamie@shareable.org, 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) Message-ID: <20050413125609.GA9571@vagabond> References: <3SbPN-3T4-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050412144529.GE10995@mail.shareable.org> <20050412160409.GH10995@mail.shareable.org> <20050412164401.GA14149@mail.shareable.org> <20050412171338.GA14633@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1654 Lines: 46 --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 21:08:25 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > There was a thread a few months ago where file-as-directory was > > discussed extensively, after Namesys implemented it. That's where the > > conversation on detachable mount points originated AFAIR. It will > > probably happen at some point. > >=20 > > A nice implemention of it in FUSE could push it along a bit :) >=20 > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this > impossible? I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death. Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In fact IIRC that is what lead to all the funny talk about mountpoints, since they don't have this limitation) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCXRbpRel1vVwhjGURAsi3AJ9USd++As69//zvLLBsM9IZNwkbBACg6YsH rGRGEW5jvCgW3/ukGjsnLRM= =jGU7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2-- - 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/