[PATCH 0/5] Dynamic Pseudo Root

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:41:37PM +0100, Gabriel Barazer wrote:
> On 02/18/2008 7:58:36 PM +0100, Trond Myklebust 
> <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no> wrote:
...
> > 
> > For instance, currently with NFSv3, I can have rules like
> > 
> > /foo/bar	client1
> > /foo/bar/baz	client1, client2
> > 
> > How can you encode this topology if you want the pseudo-fs to be a
> > separate filesystem? You'd have to have 2 different namespaces, one for
> > client1, and one for client2.
...
> About your example:
> pseudoroot fs contains /foo/bar only (as /foo/bar/baz is a subdirectory 
> of /foo/bar, it is supposed to already physically exist). client1 see 
> its authorized exports, as well as client2 will see /foo/bar, but will 
> only be allowed to mount /foo/bar/baz.

So if client2 does a readdir on /foo/bar, what does it see?

--b.