Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:06:56PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:02:13AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:18:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > 	6. mount --move
> > > prohibited if what we are moving is in some p-node, otherwise we move
> > > as usual to intended mountpoint and create copies for everything that
> > > gets propagation from there (as we would do for rbind).
> > 
> > Why this prohibition?
> 
> How do you propagate that?  We can weaken that to "in a p-node that
> owns something or contains more than one vfsmount", but it's not
> worth the trouble, AFAICS.

I guess I'm not seeing what there is to propagate.  If the vfsmount we
are moving is mounted under a vfsmount that's in a p-node, then there'd
be something to propagate, but since the --move doesn't change the
structure of mounts underneath the moved mountpoint, I wouldn't expect
any changes to be propagated from it to other mountpoints.

I must be missing something fundamental....

--Bruce Fields
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