Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:08:14 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isofs: mounting to regular file may succeed |
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:04:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I don't think any (all?) other filesystems perform checks like this. > Is this something which can/should be performed at the VFS level?
As far as the VFS is concerned non-directory mounts are perfectly fine. There's a lot of use cases for non-directory bind-mounts and at least some for regular filesystems with a non-directory root. E.g. the streams folks are using something like that. Solaris even ships with non-directory root filesystems mounted by default these days.
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