linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]

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Date:	Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:57:06 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, torvalds@...l.org,
	steved@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-cachefs@...hat.com, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] 

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> wrote:

> Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place?

I think the problems it is solving are these:

 (1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported?

 (2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not
     accessible?

In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the
autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that.

In the second case, the automounter relies on NFS letting it make intervening
directories it couldn't otherwise access to span the gap between "/" and
"src".

David
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