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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/28] VFS: Remove MNT_EXPIRE support
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Mike Waychison wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>>>On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:42:32AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Drop support for MNT_EXPIRE (flag to umount(2)). Nobody was using it and it
>>>>didn't fit into the new expiry framework.
>>>
>>>
>>>umm, this is a user API, you can't simply drop it.
>>>
>
>
> I also wanted to add that given the current interface that is found in
> mainline, there is no way for userspace to even set a mountpoint as
> expiring. The only consumer is still AFS which handles the
> mark_mounts_for_expiry stuff itself.
>
> So even if userspace wanted to use MNT_EXPIRE, it couldn't.
>

Gah, nevermind. I'm an idiot.

MNT_EXPIRE allows userspace to do the countdown itself. For some reason
I assumed the mount in question had to be on a mnt_fslink list.

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