-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > > >>I don't think that solves the problem. B should receive copies (with >>shared semantics if called for) of all mountpoints C1,..,Cn that are >>children of A if A->A. This is regardless of whether or not propagation >>occurs before or after the attach. > > > ... when that makes sense. Do you see any real problems with the proposed > behaviour (i.e. propagation happens before attachment)? > > BTW, you do realize that rbind also has "copy before attaching" semantics, > right?
Ya, okay, that semantic will work. Please add it to the RFC though :) > > >>Allowing this is like allowing directory aliasing in the sense that an >>aliased directory that is nested within itself opens us to >>badness/headaches 8) >> >>I still think the only way to handle this is to disallow vfsmounts in a >>p-node to have (grand)parent-child relationships. This may have to be >>extended to the 'owned by' case as well. > > > Not feasible (and think what _that_ will do to --move, especially since > propagation can span namespace boundaries). Fair enough. Changing the topic slightly: How should we handle propagation events for the detach_mnt() case? Is it fair to say: a detach_mnt of A mounted on dentry d on parent B will 'umount -l Ai' all Ai where Ai is mounted on dentry d in all peers and private derivatives of the p-node which B belong to? Steps to above: - - Detaching A from parent B (mounted on dentry d) - Let S = set of all peer vfsmounts in B's p-node p (if any) unioned with all vfsmounts owned by p (expanding owned p-nodes recursively): - For each C in S - If (C has a child mountpoint D mounted on dentry d) && (D is equivalent to A) - umount -l D Thoughts? Also, brainstorming mountpoint expiry: How about something like this: - - Each p-node has a recently-touched flag, like how vfsmount currently has a mnt_expiry_mark. - - A call to umount with MNT_EXPIRE of vfsmount A which is in a non-empty p-node will: - Will check to see if *all* Ai in A's p-node (and derivatives) are not busy, if not, return -EBUSY - Otherwise: - Will clear the recently-touched flag of the p-node if set - Otherwise it will umount all Ai. This only works btw for autofs iff we have vfs native traps. Otherwise we'll need to do recursive MNT_EXPIRE (overload MNT_EXPIRE | MNT_DETACH?) - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7Wc6dQs4kOxk3/MRAo9/AJ415IkSmKqT7rpvo7Uwr8HZqI0okwCfXYs+ iuXoqlEyzGMCnPKwLlSfgvI= =OAAC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/