Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757071AbXEWMfA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 08:35:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754537AbXEWMeu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 08:34:50 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15]:56268 "EHLO pat.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754335AbXEWMet (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 08:34:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory From: Trond Myklebust To: Al Viro Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20070523073658.GO4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20070522221045.GH4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070523070306.GM4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070523073658.GO4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:34:42 -0400 Message-Id: <1179923682.6480.18.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Resend: resent X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-0.1, required=12.0, autolearn=disabled, AWL=-0.120) X-UiO-Scanned: 71BF551EA51959C4410FCC6DF789E34B960ADBA8 X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: Ratelimit X-UiO-SPAM-Test: UIO-RATELIMIT remote_host: 129.240.10.9 spam_score: 0 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 1291 total 1905561 max/h 8345 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 23 On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:36 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:19:17AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Eh... Arbitrary limitations are fun, aren't they? > > > > But these mounts _are_ special. There is really no point in moving or > > pivoting them. > > pivoting - probably true, moving... why not? Moving would be an implementation artefact that doesn't really correspond to any useful operation on the filesyst AFAIK, most filesystems that have implemented subfiles (excepting Reiser4 of course) do not allow you to rename or move the subfile directory or its contents from one parent file to another. 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/