Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

From: Ragnar Kjørstad (kernel@ragnark.vestdata.no)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 15:21:05 EST

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:32:21PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Sorry - .last.mounted in the root of filesystem, indeed.
>
> > The writing side can't be done in userland without basically making
> > mount(8) know about the superblock layout of each and every filesystem:
>
> That's a wonderful reason to put it _not_ into superblock... OK, what's
> wrong with the variant above?

The information will not be available without mounting the filesystem
first.

However - the LVM way sounded much better, so this may not matter.

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Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage
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