Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Wed Feb 02 2005 - 16:34:10 EST


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:08:32PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
> Well, fwiw, I have the same kind of race in autofsng. I counter it by
> building up the vfsmount tree elsewhere and mount --move'ing it.
>
> Unfortunately, the RFC states that moving a shared vfsmount is
> prohibited (for which the reasoning slips my mind).

See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=110594248826226&w=2

As I understand it, the problem isn't sharing of the vfsmount being
moved, but sharing of the vfsmount on which that vfsmount is
mounted.--b.
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