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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, raven@themaw.net, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	jlayton@redhat.com, gregkh@suse.de, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	leonardo.lists@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] NFS4: Revert commit to make the automount code ignore LOOKUP_FOLLOW
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:35:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwt96i3k_UJREQU18xq=tRqRZGP8NhRJfbOaipqiVKnGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110923162451.13574.33960.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:24 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The problem with this is that this breaks nfs_follow_remote_path() used by NFS4
> to find the root object to mount for the mount() syscall.

The above message is basically dishonest.

That's not AT ALL the problem.

That problem could have been fixed with a one-liner patch that already exists.

This whole patch-series looks like just excuses for doing stupid things.

Afaik, LOOKUP_OPEN and LOOKUP_DIRECTORY already force the auto-mount.
You can use either or both to force it.

Why are people so deep in denial about this?

                        Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-23 16:24 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Automount behaviour correction David Howells
2011-09-23 16:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] NFS4: Revert commit to make the automount code ignore LOOKUP_FOLLOW David Howells
2011-09-23 16:35   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-09-23 16:53   ` David Howells
2011-09-23 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/7] VFS: Make chown() and lchown() call fchownat() David Howells
2011-09-23 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/7] VFS: Change LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT to LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT David Howells
2011-09-23 16:25 ` [PATCH 4/7] VFS: Move the automount suppression decision out to the initial callers of David Howells
2011-09-23 16:25 ` [PATCH 5/7] VFS: Ignore symlink following advice when pathwalking David Howells
2011-09-23 16:25 ` [PATCH 6/7] VFS: Make stat and xattr calls not automount David Howells
2011-09-23 16:26 ` [PATCH 7/7] VFS: Vary the automounting rules for autofs David Howells
2011-09-23 16:29 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Automount behaviour correction Linus Torvalds

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