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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:04:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: Suppress automount on [l]stat, [l]getxattr, etc.
To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, miklos@szeredi.hu,
        viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, gregkh@suse.de, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
        leonardo.lists@gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Myklebust, Trond
<Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:
>
> Your assumption is that in the majority of cases, we do _not_ want to
> automount the final directory unless we know that we are expecting a
> directory.

Umm. That is the assumption yes, BUT THAT IS ALSO THE CURRENT STATE.

So it's more than an assumption. It's a fact.

So when you call it "assumption", you are basically ignoring and
trying to belittle current reality. Why?

                     Linus