Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:52:57 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:01 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > autofs v4 doesn't rely on mkdir never returning EACCESS just that it > > return EEXIST if the directory exists. Never the less if the behavior of > > stat will work in this case I'll change v4 to do it the way you suggest > > (as v5 does already). > > Aaah. Wrong again! > > Although v5 doesn't attempt to mount an NFS export if the directory > doesn't exist it does end up doing a mkdir later as the most common case > is mounting an NFS export within an autofs filesystem or other, usually > local filesystem.
Then make sure that it only does this within the autofs filesystem. The value of f_type as returned by statfs() should be able to tell you if this is the case.
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