Re: [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:18:15PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> While this problem has been present for a long time I've avoided resolving 
> it because it was not very visible. But now that autofs v5 has "mount and 
> expire on demand" of nested multiple mounts, such as is found when 
> mounting an export list from a server, solving the problem cannot be 
> avoided any longer.
> 
> I've tried very hard to find a way to do this entirely within the 
> autofs4 module but have not been able to find a satisfactory way to 
> achieve it.
> 
> So, I need to propose a change to the VFS.

NAK in that form.  Care to explain what should happen to mount tree
when you do that to mountpoint?
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