Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa _at_ xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Waychison wrote:
>
> Unless I'm missing something, implementing this as a seperate filesystem
> type still has the appropriate atomicity guarantees as long as the VFS
> support complex expiry, whereby userspace would tag submounts as being
> part of the overall expiry for a base mountpoint.
> 

It would, but it seems like a vastly more invasive change to the VFS
than ought to be necessary.

	-hpa

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