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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] exportfs: Allow filehandle lookup to cross internal mount points.
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 10:18:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpegtOLgJO9VPpyHS0PB8JSeHjZ8aMwa0fMGrcRFsB8CTUJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxiAcqXYNhG9ZGU4=7oY9idEwa9FND-VVdLgGO2RoXr6qg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 10:08, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 10:52 AM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 07:27, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Given that today, subvolume mounts (or any mounts) on the lower layer
> > > are not followed by overlayfs, I don't really see the difference
> > > if mounts are created manually or automatically.
> > > Miklos?
> >
> > Never tried overlay on btrfs.  Subvolumes AFAIK do not use submounts
> > currently, they are a sort of hack where the st_dev changes when
> > crossing the subvolume boundary, but there's no sign of them in
> > /proc/mounts (there's no d_automount in btrfs).
>
> That's what Niel's patch 11/11 is proposing to add and that's the reason
> he was asking if this is going to break overlayfs over btrfs.
>
> My question was, regardless of btrfs, can ovl_lookup() treat automount
> dentries gracefully as empty dirs or just read them as is, instead of
> returning EREMOTE on lookup?
>
> The rationale is that we use a private mount and we are not following
> across mounts from layers anyway, so what do we care about
> auto or manual mounts?

I guess that depends on the use cases.  If no one cares (as is the
case apparently), the simplest is to leave it the way it is.

Thanks,
Miklos

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-06  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-27 22:37 [PATCH/RFC 00/11] expose btrfs subvols in mount table correctly NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 07/11] exportfs: Allow filehandle lookup to cross internal mount points NeilBrown
2021-07-28 10:13   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-07-29  0:28     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-29  5:27       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-06  7:52         ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-08-06  8:08           ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-06  8:18             ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2021-07-28 19:17   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-07-28 22:25     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 04/11] VFS: export lookup_mnt() NeilBrown
2021-07-30  0:31   ` Al Viro
2021-07-30  5:33     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 01/11] VFS: show correct dev num in mountinfo NeilBrown
2021-07-30  0:25   ` Al Viro
2021-07-30  5:28     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  5:54       ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-07-30  6:13         ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  7:18           ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-07-30  7:33             ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  7:59               ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-08-02  4:18                 ` A Third perspective on BTRFS nfsd subvol dev/inode number issues NeilBrown
2021-08-02  5:25                   ` Al Viro
2021-08-02  5:40                     ` NeilBrown
2021-08-02  7:54                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-02 13:53                         ` Josef Bacik
2021-08-03 22:29                           ` Qu Wenruo
2021-08-02 14:47                         ` Frank Filz
2021-08-02 21:24                         ` NeilBrown
2021-08-02  7:15                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2021-08-02 21:40                     ` NeilBrown
2021-08-02 12:39                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-02 20:32                     ` Patrick Goetz
2021-08-02 20:41                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-02 21:10                     ` NeilBrown
2021-08-02 21:50                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-02 21:59                         ` NeilBrown
2021-08-02 22:14                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-02 22:36                             ` NeilBrown
2021-08-03  0:15                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 03/11] VFS: pass lookup_flags into follow_down() NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 11/11] btrfs: use automount to bind-mount all subvol roots NeilBrown
2021-07-28  8:37   ` kernel test robot
2021-07-28  8:37     ` kernel test robot
2021-07-28  8:37   ` [RFC PATCH] btrfs: btrfs_mountpoint_expiry_timeout can be static kernel test robot
2021-07-28  8:37     ` kernel test robot
2021-07-28 13:12   ` [PATCH 11/11] btrfs: use automount to bind-mount all subvol roots Christian Brauner
2021-07-29  0:43     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-29 14:38       ` Christian Brauner
2021-07-31  6:25   ` [btrfs] 5874902268: xfstests.btrfs.202.fail kernel test robot
2021-07-31  6:25     ` kernel test robot
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 06/11] nfsd: include a vfsmount in struct svc_fh NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 10/11] btrfs: introduce mapping function from location to inum NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 02/11] VFS: allow d_automount to create in-place bind-mount NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 09/11] nfsd: Allow filehandle lookup to cross internal mount points NeilBrown
2021-07-28 19:15   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-07-28 22:29     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  0:42   ` Al Viro
2021-07-30  5:43     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 08/11] nfsd: change get_parent_attributes() to nfsd_get_mounted_on() NeilBrown
2021-07-27 22:37 ` [PATCH 05/11] VFS: new function: mount_is_internal() NeilBrown
2021-07-28  2:16   ` Al Viro
2021-07-28  3:32     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  0:34       ` Al Viro
2021-07-28  2:19 ` [PATCH/RFC 00/11] expose btrfs subvols in mount table correctly Al Viro
2021-07-28  4:58 ` Wang Yugui
2021-07-28  6:04   ` Wang Yugui
2021-07-28  7:01     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-28 12:26       ` Neal Gompa
2021-07-28 19:14         ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-07-29  1:29           ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-07-29  1:43             ` NeilBrown
2021-07-29 23:20               ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-07-28 22:50         ` NeilBrown
2021-07-29  2:37           ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-07-29  3:36             ` NeilBrown
2021-07-29 23:20               ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-07-30  2:36                 ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  5:25                   ` Qu Wenruo
2021-07-30  5:31                     ` Qu Wenruo
2021-07-30  5:53                       ` Amir Goldstein
2021-07-30  6:00                       ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  6:09                         ` Qu Wenruo
2021-07-30  5:58                     ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  6:23                       ` Qu Wenruo
2021-07-30  6:53                         ` NeilBrown
2021-07-30  7:09                           ` Qu Wenruo
2021-07-30 18:15                             ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-07-30 15:17                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-07-30 15:48                           ` Josef Bacik
2021-07-30 16:25                             ` Forza
2021-07-30 17:43                             ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-07-30  5:28                   ` Amir Goldstein
2021-07-28 13:43       ` g.btrfs
2021-07-29  1:39         ` NeilBrown
2021-07-29  9:28           ` Graham Cobb
2021-07-28  7:06   ` NeilBrown
2021-07-28  9:36     ` Wang Yugui
2021-07-28 19:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-07-28 21:30   ` Josef Bacik
2021-07-30  0:13     ` Al Viro
2021-07-30  6:08       ` NeilBrown
2021-08-13  1:45 ` [PATCH] VFS/BTRFS/NFSD: provide more unique inode number for btrfs export NeilBrown
2021-08-13 14:55   ` Josef Bacik
2021-08-15  7:39   ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2021-08-15 19:35     ` Roman Mamedov
2021-08-15 21:03       ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2021-08-15 21:53         ` NeilBrown
2021-08-17 19:34           ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2021-08-17 21:39             ` NeilBrown
2021-08-18 17:24               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2021-08-15 22:17       ` NeilBrown
2021-08-19  8:01         ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-20  3:21           ` NeilBrown
2021-08-20  6:23             ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-23  4:05         ` [PATCH v2] BTRFS/NFSD: " NeilBrown
2021-08-23  8:17           ` kernel test robot
2021-08-23  8:17             ` kernel test robot
2021-08-18 14:54   ` [PATCH] VFS/BTRFS/NFSD: " Wang Yugui
2021-08-18 21:46     ` NeilBrown
2021-08-19  2:19       ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-08-20  2:54         ` NeilBrown
2021-08-22 19:29           ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-08-23  5:51             ` NeilBrown
2021-08-23 23:22             ` NeilBrown
2021-08-25  2:06               ` Zygo Blaxell
2021-08-23  0:57         ` Wang Yugui

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