Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

From: Lars Marowsky-Bree
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 06:09:59 EST


On 2005-08-10T12:05:11, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What would a syntax look like which in your opinion does not remove
> > totally valid symlink targets for magic mushroom bullshit? Prefix with
> > // (which, according to POSIX, allows for implementation-defined
> > behaviour)? Something else, not allowed in a regular pathname?
> None. just don't do it. Use bindmount, they're cheap and have sane
> defined semtantics.

So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs
to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync
that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have
that executed by root, because a regular user can't?

Sure. Very cheap and sane. I'm buying.


Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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