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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Union Mount: glibc readdir support
- From: hooanon05 at yahoo dot co dot jp
- To: bharata at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, bsn dot 0007 at gmail dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Jan Blunck <jblunck at suse dot de>, Erez Zadok <ezk at cs dot sunysb dot edu>, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org, viro at zeniv dot linux dot org dot uk, Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>, Mingming Cao <cmm at us dot ibm dot com>, Dave Hansen <haveblue at us dot ibm dot com>, Trond Myklebust <trond dot myklebust at fys dot uio dot no>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:46:14 +0900
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Union Mount: glibc readdir support
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Bharata B Rao:
> At the server side, I can't see how NFS server could export a union.
> I don't see how this could be sanely done with Union Mount. Erez, how
> does Unionfs handle this ?
>
> Is dis-allowing NFS-exporting of unions an option ?
As a note, there were many requests for aufs to support NFS-exporting.
And it was already implemented. The encode/decode_fh functions in aufs
behave like sub-nfsd.
Junjiro Okajima