Return-Path: Received: from fieldses.org ([173.255.197.46]:40880 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754549AbeAKPRi (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:17:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:17:38 -0500 From: Bruce Fields To: Steve Dickson Cc: Chuck Lever , Linux NFS Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add server-side support for junctions to nfs-utils Message-ID: <20180111151738.GB4839@fieldses.org> References: <20180108213356.20133.54161.stgit@manet.1015granger.net> <20180109192100.GB18087@fieldses.org> <492B1883-83EE-40AF-AA8C-1B797D842E5E@oracle.com> <01acd06d-98d4-c6ff-5ef1-b6edbb447405@RedHat.com> <6D1A900F-3F5C-4D70-9466-69ECC4985544@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:20:54AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > On 01/10/2018 02:42 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > > I don't have any quarrel with carving out the non-network-exposed > > functionality of mountd and putting it in an upcall similar to > > nfsidmap. Seems like an entirely separate project, though, and > > probably a significant chunk of work. > It is... I was just floating the idea. Yeah, I don't mean to veto the idea, I think we've discussed it before and it's kind of appealing. I just think we haven't thought it through and we don't have any real reason it's necessary right now. I'd hate to send someone down that rabbit hole and have the come back with a bunch of work and us say "uh, but why do we want this?". --b.