[linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS home mount won't allow KDE to, run

Paul Waldo pwaldo at waldoware.com
Mon Jun 25 11:50:04 GMT 2007


Steve French wrote:
> Also note that the default is not to use serverino since mount points 
> can cross device boundaries (and thus duplicate inode numbers can be 
> possible depending on how the server shares are configured) - when we 
> finish merging the DFS patch we can use the same concept introduced 
> there (ie of "shrinkable mounts" and junctions) to handle the case of 
> a server which exports more than one device (and thus workaround 
> duplicate inode numbers by doing "implicit mounts")
>

Hi Steve,

That first part worries me.  Is this the scenario you are talking about?:
1. Mount CIFS share 1 on /a/b
2. mkdir /a/b/c
3. Mount CIFS share 2 on a/b/c

Thanks!

Paul


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