[OpenAFS-devel] getcwd() on Linux 2.6.18+OpenAFS 1.4.2 bugs/errors.

[Chaskiel M Grundman]

--On Thursday, November 15, 2007 01:27:29 PM -0700 Michael Loftis 
<mloftis@wgops.com> wrote:

> Is there any plans at all to fix this bug?  This breaks stuff for us even
> completely ignoring the use of any jails as relative symlinks will
> misbehave under Linux.

Making openafs conform completely to linux's "directories may not have 
aliases" rule (which is effectively the problem here) will require that we 
make each volume a linux mounted filesystem, which in turn would force us 
to throw out a large portion of the existing cache manager, which assumes a 
single pool of afs files (aka vnodes/vcaches). It will also require some 
sort of user process to manage the mount() calls, since do_kern_mount is 
GPLONLY. It might be easier to fork the in-kernel afs code and make it more 
openafs-like than do all that.