Re: Multimount block devices

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

2005/7/22, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have got a block device which I would like to mount twice using different
> filesystems. The two filesystems support this (are already patched), but
> through the function thread of mounting comes open_bdev_excl() which makes
> it impossible to do said mounts.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint on what to change to disable bdev exclusive locking
> for a given condition? Thanks.

Write your own get_sb_bdev() and open_bdev(), do not call bd_claim().
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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