Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] VFS: Introduce mount context | Date | Mon, 08 May 2017 09:35:49 +0100 |
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > This patchset achieves this partly, but the separation is far from > > crisp clear... First of all why is fsopen() creating a "mount > > context"? It's suppsed to create a "superblock creation context". > > I've no particular objection to renaming struct mount_context to something > else, but it also needs to handle remount because of the commonality. > > Further, once you've created a superblock, what are you going to do with it > other than mount it? I suppose you could statfs it and we could add other > superblock manipulation functions, but this is normally done by opening the > device directly (at least for bdev-based superblocks).
How about sb_context, sb_config, sb_parameters or something like that?
David
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