[linux-cifs-client] DFS support in CIFS

Steve French smfltc at us.ibm.com
Tue Oct 31 19:37:47 GMT 2006


It is interesting now that "fs_locations" support is in Linux NFSv4 
client.   They do it via "implicit mount" approach, rather than 
overriding inode backpointers to the superblock and have addressed the 
issue of umount.

See fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c and other places that call vfs_kern_mount and 
afs/mntpt.c

For umount nfs handles the implicit mounts which need to be implicitly 
umounted in shrink_submounts


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