Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751299AbVJFSsa (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:48:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751298AbVJFSsa (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:48:30 -0400 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:2733 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751294AbVJFSs3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:48:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:48:18 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Miklos Szeredi , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] atomic create+open Message-ID: <20051006184818.GA30137@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jamie Lokier , Miklos Szeredi , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <1128616864.8396.32.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1128619526.16534.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1128620528.16534.26.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20051006180006.GB19766@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051006180006.GB19766@mail.shareable.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 23 On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:00:06PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Secondly, Linux doesn't actually allow bind mounts on top of regular > > > files. > > > > It does. Try it. > > The feature is even useful from time to time. But very limited... the last time I needed something like this, bind mounts on files were so awkward that I ended up solving the problem in FUSE instead. Explanation at: http://return.false.org/~drow/fuse/ -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC - 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/