On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:37:54PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I think the question you meant to ask was what would happen if you > mounted something on /tmp/mnt2/a/b (the slave copy) and then mounted > something else on /tmp/mnt1/a/b. In that case there's two places where > the propagated mount might go: > 1. On top of the dentry a/b in /tmp/mnt2, underneath the > preexisting mount. > 2. On top of the root dentry of the thing mounted in > /tmp/mnt2/a/b, thus covering the preexisting mount. > > Wouldn't option 1 require changing the mnt_parent of the preexisting > mount on /tmp/mnt2/a/b? That seems like an odd thing to do, so I assume > option 2 is the only possible solution, but perhaps I'm missing > something.
Yes, I'm confused: --move, for example, changes the mnt_parent, and it's only ever used under vfsmount_lock. So #1, which adheres to the rule that all the clones are mounted at the same dentry, probably makes more sense.--b. - 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/
