Re: supermount

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
12 Feb 2000 20:30:35 +0100


cataldo@essi.fr (Cataldo Thomas) writes:

> I'd like to know the supermount patch didn't went into linus tree.

- Generates sometimes endless "looping directories" over NFS.
- Makes all statfs calls hang for 10+s with certain SCSI CDroms when
there is no disk in drive. This is funny because rpm uses statfs.
- Requires block driver changes everywhere.
- Does a few disgusting things with the VFS.

-Andi

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