linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fuse fix for 2.6.39

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikBVAJSmBZrAvJ6fRQD32TFNeO4zQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 10:21:21 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fuse fix for 2.6.39

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Trond Myklebust
<Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:
>
> NFS also requires look up using the full 'struct path' if/when we happen
> upon an automount point (i.e. if we cross into a submounted filesystem
> on the server or if we encounter an NFSv4 referral). Again, this is
> something that lookup_one_len() can't do.

Sure. But we might not want to oops. Would you be willing to try
ecryptfs over NFS to at least make it limp along?

                       Linus
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