Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbVEXBHS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 21:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261312AbVEXBEN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 21:04:13 -0400 Received: from wombat.indigo.net.au ([202.0.185.19]:34318 "EHLO wombat.indigo.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261292AbVEXA6v (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 20:58:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:06:07 +0800 (WST) From: Ian Kent X-X-Sender: raven@wombat.indigo.net.au To: Miklos Szeredi cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [VFS-RFC] autofs4 and bind, rbind and move mount requests In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-102.5, required 8, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_PINE, USER_IN_WHITELIST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 40 On Mon, 23 May 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Perhaps not in this case. > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding. > > Are you talking about an automounted filesystem, or the autofs > filesystem itself. I'm talking about the autofs filesystem (actually the autofs4 module). > > With the later I can well imagine that you have problems with bind and > move. yep. I'm not really concerned about whether bind and move mounts work or not. I just need to establish whether these should be supported and if so, how they should work so I can resolve the problem. Personally, I would be happy to say these types of mounts are not supported by autofs if I could veto the requests. atm I can easily panic the kernel. As I said, it would be fairly easy to fail silently but .... There's not much in it but see: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4589 Sorry that my initial post was unclear and perhaps incomplete but mostly people are not that familiar with automounting and often they don't really want to know about it. I guess they have their own priorities. Thanks for your interest. 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/