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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] VFS: Introduce mount context
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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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