Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/13] sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:16:29 -0800 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:
> Hello, > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> It isn't what I want but it is what the VFS requires. If let the vfs >> continue on it's delusional state we will leak the vfs mount and >> everything mounted on top of it, with no way to remove the mounts. > > This is caused by not having any way to prevent deletion on > directories with submounts, right? How does other distributed > filesystems deal with directories with submounts going away underneath > it?
NFS does exactly the same thing I am doing.
Eric
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