Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:29:11 -0400 | From | Mike Waychison <> | Subject | Re: [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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