linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

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Message-ID: <20070524120731.GC7444@ucw.cz>
Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 12:07:32 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	viro@....linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

Hi!

> > As for unlink...  How do you deal with having that thing
> > mounted, mounting something _under_ it (so that vfsmount would be kept
> > busy) and then unlinking that sucker?
> 
> Yeah, that's a good point.  Current patch doesn't deal with that.
> Simplest solution could be to disallow submounting these.  Don't think
> it makes much sense anyway.

Hmmm, cd foo.tgz/bar/baz.tgz/xyzzy makes sense, and it is implemented
as a submount, no?
							Pavel
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