Re: [PATCH] root-hopping for pre-2.3.41-3

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 08:42:59 EST


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> said:

[...]

> Correct. In fact, for autofs v5 I want to be able to support just
> exactly that in order to support direct mounts. I discussed a way to do
> that with Linus that should avoid adding any additional accesses,
> although it probably will require an extra pointer field in the dentry
> structure.

Extra acceses when mounting would be preferable to complicating everything
else, IMMHO.

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