Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758301Ab1ELRqr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2011 13:46:47 -0400 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:35820 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758201Ab1ELRqq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2011 13:46:46 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,359,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="547509346" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fuse fix for 2.6.39 From: Trond Myklebust To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: References: <87fwokarjj.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <1305217732.15566.31.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Organization: NetApp Inc Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:46:29 -0400 Message-ID: <1305222389.21868.10.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 (2.32.2-1.fc14) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2011 17:46:30.0681 (UTC) FILETIME=[86BD0890:01CC10CC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 41 On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:21 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Trond Myklebust > wrote: > > > > NFS also requires look up using the full 'struct path' if/when we happen > > upon an automount point (i.e. if we cross into a submounted filesystem > > on the server or if we encounter an NFSv4 referral). Again, this is > > something that lookup_one_len() can't do. > > Sure. But we might not want to oops. Would you be willing to try > ecryptfs over NFS to at least make it limp along? > > Linus I was thinking rather of just returning an EIO if people try. We know that there are breakages w.r.t. certain operations as I pointed out in my previous email. I suppose it really boils down to the following: Is there really a community of people out there relying on being able to do ecryptfs over NFS today? If so, what are they using it for, and are they going to care about those breakages? Cheers Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com -- 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/