On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:26:14PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > What would be the benefit of having private non-visible vfsmounts? > Sounds like a recipe for confusion? > > It is possible that mountd might start doing bind-mounts to create the > 'pseudo filesystem' thing for NFSv4, but they would be very visible > (under /var/lib/nfs/v4root or something). So having it's own vfsmount > might make sense, but I don't get 'non-visible'.
It would allow creating an exported tree without interferance with the local visible tree. Note that the local visible tree isn't global anymore either, and this allows to adjust what's exported through nfsd throug a specific interface instead of needing to get into nfsd namespace through some way. Think of listing the actually exported devices in /etc/exports instead of the indirection through fstab aswell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/