Re: supermount

[Jeff Garzik]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> [e-mail] (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.

The latest supermount 2.2.x patch includes several changes, do they
allay your fears/arguments?

I'll grant you the last point, but supermount is damn useful and it
would be nice to see it get into the kernel, or at least similar
functionality in a cleaner way.

Supermount 2.2 URL:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/8144/supermount.html

	Jeff

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