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SubjectRe: bug with multiple mounts of filesystems in 2.6
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:33:07PM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
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> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > På må , 26/07/2004 klokka 12:29, skreiv John S J Anderson:
> >
> >> Hi --
> >>
> >> We're working on migrating to the 2.6 kernel series, and one big
> >> problem has popped up: we have a number of NFS mounts that are
> >> mounted read-only in one location and read-write in a distinct
> >> location (on the same machine). With 2.4 series kernels, this worked
> >> without issue, but with 2.6, it doesn't: it's not possible to mount
> >> the same filesystem twice with different options for each mount; the
> >> two mount points have to share the same mount options.
> >
> > That behaviour is no longer supported as it meant that you would have
> > different superblocks (and hence different out-of-sync caches) between
> > the 2 mountpoint. It is in any case not a behaviour that is supported on
> > any other Linux filesystems.
>
> How is this any different than having two seperate nfs clients accessing
> the same nfs export?
>
> > If you want readonly to be an exception, then you will have to move the
> > MS_RDONLY flag from being a superblock option to being a vfsmount
> > option, then propagate that vfsmount information down to all the tests
> > of IS_RDONLY(inode). Not a trivial task, and not one that looms high on
> > my list of priorities...
>
> What ever happened to the bind ro patches that were floating around a
> couple months ago?
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107932320200005&r=1&w=2)
>
> What is left in getting this done? Just the touch_file bit Viro
> commented on?

started with the noatime/nodiratime stuff for inclusion
but that patch was neither commented nor included, so
I put it on hold ... currently I'm planning to update
this for 2.6.8 ... we'll see ...

best,
Herbert


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