Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030405AbWHUMQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:16:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030406AbWHUMQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:16:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43727 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030405AbWHUMQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:16:31 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <20060819094840.083026fd.akpm@osdl.org> <13319.1155744959@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1155743399.5683.13.camel@localhost> <20060813133935.b0c728ec.akpm@osdl.org> <20060813012454.f1d52189.akpm@osdl.org> <5910.1155741329@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <2138.1155893924@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <3976.1156079732@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <30856.1156153373@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> To: Ian Kent Cc: David Howells , Andrew Morton , Trond Myklebust , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aviro@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Replace null dentries that appear in readdir's list [try #2] X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:16:07 +0100 Message-ID: <323.1156162567@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 26 Ian Kent wrote: > That makes it a bit hard as the /net functionality that Andrew is using is > meant to mount all exports from the given server. But does it _matter_ that the thing is mounted or dismounted as a unit? And if so, why? > In v4 that are mounted and umounted as a unit to deal with the nesting. Why does the automounter daemon have to do the mounting of submounts? What's wrong with having the kernel do it? The one problem with having the kernel do it that I can see, is that the kernel doesn't update /etc/mtab. Note that rather than manually mounting the submounts, you could just open and close those directories as that should cause them to automount - though the xdev mountpoints will expire and become automatically unmounted after a certain period. David - 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/