On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:34:42AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:36 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:19:17AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > Eh... Arbitrary limitations are fun, aren't they?
> > >
> > > But these mounts _are_ special. There is really no point in moving or
> > > pivoting them.
> >
> > pivoting - probably true, moving... why not?
>
> Moving would be an implementation artefact that doesn't really
> correspond to any useful operation on the filesyst
>
> AFAIK, most filesystems that have implemented subfiles (excepting
> Reiser4 of course) do not allow you to rename or move the subfile
> directory or its contents from one parent file to another.
If that's about xattr and nothing else, colour me thoroughly uninterested.
If it might have other interesting uses, OTOH...
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