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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Union Mount: glibc readdir support
- From: David Newall <davidn at davidnewall dot com>
- To: bharata at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, bsn dot 0007 at gmail dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Jan Blunck <jblunck at suse dot de>, Erez Zadok <ezk at cs dot sunysb dot edu>, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org, viro at zeniv dot linux dot org dot uk, Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>, Mingming Cao <cmm at us dot ibm dot com>, Dave Hansen <haveblue at us dot ibm dot com>, Trond Myklebust <trond dot myklebust at fys dot uio dot no>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:40:28 +0930
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Union Mount: glibc readdir support
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Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Is dis-allowing NFS-exporting of unions an option ?
Is it that simple? What about a union further in an NFS export? What
about union-mounting after the tree has been NFS-exported? If the
kernel won't fully merge unions then FS servers have to do whatever it
is that's being proposed for glibc.