Re: [PATCH 8/28] VFS: Remove MNT_EXPIRE support

[Mike Waychison]

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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.

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