linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

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Message-ID: <44BBD688.6070502@namesys.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:27:20 -0700
From:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
CC:	Jeffrey Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, 7eggert@....de,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:27 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
>
>  
>
>>Create a mountpoint which knows how to resolve a/b without using a
>>"directory".
>>    
>>
>
>And said mountpoint gets past the '/' interpretation in the VFS, how, exactly?
>
>fs/namei.c, do_path_lookup() does magic on a '/' on about the 3rd line.
>So you're going to get handed 'a'.
>  
>
It does not need to be so complex actually,  Just create a plain old
parent directory just like every other parent directory in procfs.
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