From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761375AbZDABIf (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:08:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753807AbZDABIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:08:24 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34362 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752734AbZDABIX (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:08:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:04:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Trond Myklebust cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup() In-Reply-To: <1238547065.28445.178.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Message-ID: References: <3f1264127d431f695be25b940b477e3d287edc68.1238525532.git.Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> <1238539079.28445.103.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1238542722.28445.154.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1238547065.28445.178.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > None of this is running on the server. The private namespace is being > created on the NFSv4 client, which only needs to resolve a mount path as > part of a sys_mount() call. Ahh. A light goes on. So it realy does end up being a once-only thing. I didn't look at the users, and assumed that "server side" implied nfsd. Linus