linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903311803260.4130@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function
 vfs_remote_path_lookup()



On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> None of this is running on the server. The private namespace is being
> created on the NFSv4 client, which only needs to resolve a mount path as
> part of a sys_mount() call.

Ahh. A light goes on. So it realy does end up being a once-only thing. I 
didn't look at the users, and assumed that "server side" implied nfsd.

		Linus
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