Jim Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds like what you want is for the kernel to keep track not only of > the files and directories you have open, but the paths by which you got > to them. Not impossible, but I think it would require changes to the > kernel outside afs. And it would change the semantics of the file > system.
> I'll admit that what you've seen can be surprising. That's why most > file systems prohibit loops. It would be nice if afs could do this but > it would be hard to implement. And if we did, you would lose your > /afs/mw shortcut. The issue is with multiple paths to the same directory, which doesn't require a loop. Does the same problem happen with bind mounts? And if not, can we use whatever solution was used for bind mounts to fix this problem? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
