Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] | Date | Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:57:06 +0100 |
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> Why the hell is it doing a mkdir in the first place?
I think the problems it is solving are these:
(1) What happens if "/" is _not_ exported?
(2) What happens if some intermediate directory (say "/usr") is not accessible?
In the first case, the automounter just makes "usr" and "usr/src", say, in the autofs filesystem, and then mounts server:/usr/src on that.
In the second case, the automounter relies on NFS letting it make intervening directories it couldn't otherwise access to span the gap between "/" and "src".
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