Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

From: J. Bruce Fields (bfields_at_fieldses.org)
Date: 01/25/05

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    To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
    
    

    On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:47:04PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
    > Although Al hasn't explicitly defined the semantics for mount
    > - --make-shared, I think the idea is that 'only' that mountpoint becomes
    > tagged as shared (becomes a member of a p-node of size 1).

    On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:18:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
    > * we can mark a subtree sharable. Every vfsmount in the subtree
    > that is not already in some p-node gets a single-element p-node of its
    > own.

    Also, note that mount automatically sets up propagation that mirrors
    that of the mounted on vfsmount, so by default new mounts anywhere in
    the subtree will also be tagged as shared.

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