On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:56:21AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > That looks simpler, but I still don't understand why we need it. > > I'm confused about how d_path works; I would have thought that > filesystem namespaces would have their own vfsmount trees and hence that > the (vfsmount, dentry) would be enough to specify the path. Is the root > argument for the case of chroot? Do we care about that?
__d_path() is relative pathname from here to there. Whether (and what for) is it wanted in case of nfsd patches is a separate question... > Also, svc_export_request is called from mountd's read of > /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.export/channel. If mountd's root is wrong, then > nothing's going to work anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
