Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:07:38 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:13:55PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:05:38AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hello, Andrew, > > > > Some export-removal work causes breakage for an out-of-tree filesystem. > > Could you please apply the attached patch to restore the exports for > > files_lock and set_fs_root? > > What out of tree filesystem, and what the heck is it doing?
MVFS, as was correctly guessed from my diff. It is providing a view into a source-code control system, so that a given process can specify the version it wishes to see. Yes, different processes then see a different filesystem tree at the same mount point.
> Without proper explanation it's vetoed.
What additional explanation are you looking for?
> btw, any reason you put half the world in the Cc list? Al and Andrew I > see, but do the other people on the Cc list have to do with it? And you > forgot the person that killed the export.
I figured that there was no way that you would miss it, so there was no point in adding to an already overly long CC line. ;-)
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