Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblocksharing [try #13]

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Tue Sep 05 2006 - 08:50:58 EST


On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:47 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:57 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place?
> >
> > I think the problems it is solving are these:
> >
> > (1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported?
> >
> > (2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not
> > accessible?
> >
> >
> > In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the
> > autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that.
>
> That is fine. As long as it is doing so in the _autofs_ filesystem. A
> call to 'stat()' should suffice to tell if this is the case.

I meant statfs().


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