On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:15:05PM +0300, Q (Igor Mammedov) wrote: > > + dput(nd->dentry); > > + nd->dentry = dget(dentry); > > + if (d_mountpoint(nd->dentry)) > > + goto out_follow; > > > > A link should never be a mountpoint. > > why link? after patch 5 are applied DFS junction point becomes directory > instead of link. That is what has been done in NFS code.
True, this is the ->follow_link on directory hack. > Actually I copy & pasted it from NFS code ... > fs/nfs/namespace.c:nfs_follow_mountpoint > > I've tried to do submount/referral machinery in NFS code way. Okay, and that came from afs. I really think we should take large parts of this back into the VFS because it's just to fragile to be duplicated in various filesystems. Probably not a blocker for your patch but I'll keep an eye on consolidating this back into the core. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
