Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 15 2005 - 19:53:19 EST


On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:46:59PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:18:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > 2. mount
> >
> > We have a new vfsmount A and want to attach it to mountpoint somewhere in
> > vfsmount B. If B does not belong to any p-node, everything is as usual; A
> > doesn't become a member or slave of any p-node and is simply attached to B.
> >
> > If B belongs to a p-node p, consider all vfsmounts B1,...,Bn that get events
> > propagated from B and all p-nodes p1,...,pk that contain them.
> > * A gets cloned into n copies and these copies (A1,...,An) are attached
> > to corresponding points in B1,...,Bn.
> > * k new p-nodes (q1,...,qk) are created
> > * Ai is contained in qj <=> Bi is contained in qj
>
> Minor typo: looks like that second qj should be pj.

ACK
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