In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaya Potter writes:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Erez Zadok wrote:
> 
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nix writes:
> >> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Erez Zadok stipulated:
> >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaya Potter writes:
> >>>> No Fist based file system really crosses mount points (This came up
> >>>> years ago on the fistgen list).
> >>>
> >>> Not quite.  It's an option if you want to cross or not:
> >>
> >> Is it? How do you turn it on?
> >
> > You set
> >
> >     dynamic_inode_numbers=yes
> >
> 
> does that do anything besides making it use iunique in fistgen?  

No.

> I ask, 
> because one would think that one could still cross mount points without 
> iunique, it just be increadibly screwed up if one hits the same inode # 
> without the use of iunique?  But from my experince (though haven't tried 
> in a while), is that when one crosses a mount point, there's nothing 
> there.

We return -EXDEV if you try to cross w/o iunique.  There's no point in
returning another inode w/ a conflicting inum: too many things will go
terribly wrong.  It a'int worth it.

> I can try again w/ base0fs and see what happens and with that addition as 
> well.

Erez.
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