Re: structure dentry help...

dony (dony.he@huawei.com.cn)
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:31:39 +0800

On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:07:23AM +0800, dony wrote:
> > With your kind help, now I can understand d_parent, d_subdirs, d_child. But I
> > still cannot grasp the meaning of d_covers and d_mounts exactly :-((
> > Can you give me more detailed information about these two, please?
> > Thank you very much.
>
> Let's try again, with a diagram:
>
> Before mounting:
>
> dentry fs name d_covers d_mounts
> 1 root /mnt 1 1
>
> After:
>
> dentry fs name d_covers d_mounts
> 1 root /mnt 2 1
> 2 cdrom /mnt 1 2
>
> Is that clearer?

Yes, this diagram may be clearer, but I still seem to not be sure about them.
:-(( Can you give me a description about the above two diagrams?

Thanks ~_~
dony

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