From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965066AbVHJLJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:09:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965067AbVHJLJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:09:43 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:39087 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965066AbVHJLJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:09:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:09:17 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , David Teigland , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cluster@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS Message-ID: <20050810110917.GG4634@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20050802071828.GA11217@redhat.com> <20050809152045.GT29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050810070309.GA2415@infradead.org> <20050810103041.GB4634@marowsky-bree.de> <20050810103256.GA6127@infradead.org> <20050810103424.GC4634@marowsky-bree.de> <20050810105450.GA6519@infradead.org> <20050810110259.GE4634@marowsky-bree.de> <20050810110511.GA6728@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050810110511.GA6728@infradead.org> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2005-08-10T12:05:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > What would a syntax look like which in your opinion does not remove > > totally valid symlink targets for magic mushroom bullshit? Prefix with > > // (which, according to POSIX, allows for implementation-defined > > behaviour)? Something else, not allowed in a regular pathname? > None. just don't do it. Use bindmount, they're cheap and have sane > defined semtantics. So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have that executed by root, because a regular user can't? Sure. Very cheap and sane. I'm buying. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"