[linux-cifs-client] Re: mount to symlink dir

[Steve French]

Steve French wrote:
> In testing a way to handle the request for "deep tree mounts" (path 
> prefixes) on cifs mounts (Samba bugzilla 4040), I ran into a strange 
> problem.
>
> I exported /boot on the server but accidently typed in boot as the 
> path prefix
> ie
>    mount -t cifs //localhost/boot             /mnt -o prefixpath=boot
> which is basically
>    mount -t cifs //localhost/boot/boot     /mnt
>
> or will be when mount.cifs is changed to parse for the extra / in the 
> UNC names and
> convert it to the new cifs kernel mount parm "prefixpath" which we 
> prepend to path
> based requests.
>
> Problem is /boot/boot is a symlink to . which results in strange 
> problems.
>
> Basically this means that //localhost/boot/boot resolves to . which is 
> strange.
>
> If you try to mount to a file (rather than directory) target - mount 
> will fail - but
> what is mount supposed to do if you mount to a symlink to .
>
> Ideas?
>
>

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