Patent ID: 8086584

Claim:
A computer program product on a computer-readable storage medium for processing information about file system resources on a data processing system that supports an operating system that implements operations on file systems, the computer program product comprising: instruction for identifying a target file system resource; instruction for identifying a first file system data structure that represents a file system that contains the target file system resource using a file system resource data structure that represents the target file system resource; instruction for storing, in response to a determination that the first file system data structure identifies a file system resource data structure that represents an automount point, an automount indicator value in association with the target file system resource, wherein the automount indicator value indicates that the target file system resource is an automount file system resource, wherein an automount file system resource is a file system resource that is contained in a file system that is automounted by the operating system; instruction for retrieving, in response to a determination to perform a file system operation with respect to the target file system resource, the automount indicator value associated with the target file system resource; instruction for checking, in response to a determination that the automount indicator value indicates that the target file system resource is an automount file system resource, if the file system that contains the target file system resource is mounted; instruction for performing, in response to a determination that the file system that contains the target file system resource is mounted, the file system operation; and instruction for postponing, in response to a determination that the file system that contains the target file system resource is not mounted, the file system operation.