[linux-cifs-client] Multiple mounts on same mount points

[Steve French]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 04:54 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:39:56 +0530
>> Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/31/2010 09:25 PM, Steve French wrote:
>>>> The existing MultiUserMount feature of cifs (this existing multiuser
>>>> support is more limited than what Jeff has proposed for the future)
>>>> required multiple mounts in order to pass unique credentials down for
>>>> each new uid.
>>>
>>> Ok, thanks for the clarifying.
>>>
>>
>> Yes. We should note however that there's no real requirement with the
>> old multiuser support that the mounts all be to the same mountpoint. It
>> may be more convenient to do it that way in some situations however.
>>
>
> Could you please enlighten me on one or more of those situations? I
> could not think of one.

User wants files created on a share to be owned by different users.

An example,  user1 mounts /mnt to \\server\user1 using his username
He has a program running as user2 that needs to create files on the
same share, but with different credentials, so user2 mounts
\\server\user2 (also to /mnt)

This approach is more limited than what is possible with Jeff's
multiuser patches but gives an example.



-- 
Thanks,

Steve