Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:40:31 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt; |
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:26:50AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Let me put it that way: I don't understand why (if it is useful at all) > > it is done in the fs. Looks like a wrong level... > > For the same reason that the UUID and LABEL are stored in the superblock: > you want this infomation kept with the filesystem and not anywhere else, > otherwise it will quickly get out-of-date. Wherever you mounted the > filesystem last is where it would be mounted if you import the VG on > another system. You can obviously edit /etc/fstab afterwards if it is > wrong, and then remount the filesystem(s), and this will store the > correct mountpoint into the filesystem for the next vgimport.
Al is saying `why not do this in mount(8) instead of mount(2)?' I haven't seen you answer that yet.
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