Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:41:40 +0100 (CET) | From | Urban Widmark <> | Subject | Re: [FIX] missing piece from fs/super.c in -pre8 |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > Linus, I doubt that making the thing inline was a good idea. Reason: for > > filesystems like NFS we almost definitely want something like server name > > + root path to identify the superblock. And that can easily grow past > > 32 bytes. > > Since it is only used for printouts, I'd much rather have simpler code.
FWIW, smbfs will want to know the servername + "share" used to mount it. It will use that info to get smbconnect to do the proper magic to get a new connection. So it doesn't have to be just printouts.
If this field is meant to be accessed by the fs code then I could put that info there. Or someone could set it to dev_name in get_sb_nodev (if that string is what I think it is).
Or I can do what I do now and pass it as a separate option and keep it in a smbfs private area.
/Urban
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