[linux-cifs-client] Re: mount to symlink dir
Steve French
smfrench at austin.rr.com
Wed Sep 20 19:23:16 GMT 2006
Shaggy reminded me about bind mounts, if it were not for the problem
doing umount, then it would be safer to do
the "deep tree mounts" (bugzilla.samba.org bug #4040) in userspace (in
mount.cifs)
mount -t cifs //server/share/path /mnt
would be handled by mount.cifs by doing
mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt
mount --bind /mnt/path /mnt
Although this is safer (no kernel code change needed) it causes the
problem that we
would have to find a way to automatically do "umount /mnt" twice
(to get rid of bind mount and the underlying mount).
Ideas?
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