Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750733AbVJ0MgD (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:36:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750732AbVJ0MgD (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:36:03 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:6866 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750717AbVJ0MgC (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:36:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] VFS: per inode statfs (core) From: Trond Myklebust To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: bulb@ucw.cz, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20051025042519.GJ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20051026173150.GB11769@efreet.light.src> <20051026195240.GB15046@efreet.light.src> <20051027080713.GA25460@djinn> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:35:23 -0400 Message-Id: <1130416523.14036.6.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.814, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 2.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.05, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0.14, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 20 to den 27.10.2005 klokka 10:23 (+0200) skreiv Miklos Szeredi: > Yes, possibility for finding out where subfilesystems are located > _will_ be missing for such filesystems as sshfs. Why? Can't lookup() notice the change in remote st_dev as you cross the filesystem boundary? For NFS the plan is to automatically submount such remote subfilesystems. That fixes a host of problems including the one that you mention w.r.t. statfs, the problem of potential duplicate inode numbers, etc. Cheers, Trond - 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/