Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 06:11:33 EST


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:09:17PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2005-08-10T12:05:11, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > What would a syntax look like which in your opinion does not remove
> > > totally valid symlink targets for magic mushroom bullshit? Prefix with
> > > // (which, according to POSIX, allows for implementation-defined
> > > behaviour)? Something else, not allowed in a regular pathname?
> > None. just don't do it. Use bindmount, they're cheap and have sane
> > defined semtantics.
>
> So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs
> to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync
> that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have
> that executed by root, because a regular user can't?

Do it in an initscripts and let users simply not do it, they shouldn't
even know what kind of filesystem they are on.

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