[Devel] [PATCH rh7] fs: drop LOOKUP_STRICT

Vladimir Davydov vdavydov at parallels.com
Mon Jun 22 05:03:37 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:47:32PM +0300, Konstantin Khorenko wrote:
> On 06/21/2015 06:38 PM, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > In RH6 LOOKUP_STRICT means "do not follow symlinks or mounts". Initially
> > this was introduced for the sake of vefs, which was dropped in RH7.
> 
> And what about simfs? Or even bindmounts which will be instead of it.

I think I stated that clearly - we only used it in vefs and pfcache.
The latter does not seem to be necessary.



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