From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964832AbWGHNq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:46:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964840AbWGHNq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:46:29 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:31437 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964832AbWGHNq2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:46:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:46:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Herbert Xu , davej@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting mc triggers lockdep Message-ID: <20060708134621.GA10549@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Herbert Xu , davej@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1152352400.3120.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152352400.3120.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:53:20AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Did I miss something? > > is it not possible to nfs export /sys, and then mount it over loopback? No, it's not. A filesystem needs dedicated routines to support nfs exporting and sysfs doesn't have those.