On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> >
> > c) documented the fact that for FS_SINGLE filesystems the driver must
> > call kern_mount() after register_filesystem(). This already confused
> > others (e.g. Richard Gooch) so imho it is worth pointing out.
> >
> > d) kern_mount() is supposed to be used only with FS_SINGLE filesystems but
> > the code doesn't enforce it. This patch makes kern_mount() fail with
> > EINVAL on attempt to call it on non-FS_SINGLE filesystems.
>
> Ugh. Would it not be 100% cleaner to just do this automatically for
> FS_SINGLE filesystems upon register/unregister?
>
> Linus
This is exactly what Richard Gooch suggested but Alexander Viro said:
I don't think so. They are different operations and I'm not too happy
about mixing them together. Matter of taste, but...
See "FS_SINGLE queries" thread on linux-fsdevel.
Regards,
Tigran
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