Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:32:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt; |
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Obviously, the whole vgimport stuff is going to be in userland. The only > part that needs to go in the kernel is storing the mountpoint in the > filesystem superblock. It is _not_ OK to just put it in /.last.mounted. > Quite often a data/application VG is moved independent of the root filesystem. > The info needs to stay with the filesystem itself.
Sorry - .last.mounted in the root of filesystem, indeed.
> > Since the reading side contains a bunch of heuristics > > (obviously depending on the local naming policy for temp. mountpoints, > > for one thing) you don't need anything special on the writing side... > > The writing side can't be done in userland without basically making > mount(8) know about the superblock layout of each and every filesystem:
That's a wonderful reason to put it _not_ into superblock... OK, what's wrong with the variant above?
Cheers, Al
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