Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

[Andreas Dilger]

Al, you write:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > "/mnt" from the first mount.  If it comes to the point where I can get
> > that, then I will start to worry about "mount --bind".
> > 
> > This is to store in the ext2 on-disk superblock, which is currently always
> > (from dumpe2fs -h /dev/hdX):
> > 
> > Last mounted on:          <not available>
> > 
> > To be able to put _something_ there will suit my needs.
> 
> OK... I don't like the idea of passing a vfsmount to read_super (for obvious
> reasons - ->mnt_count, for one thing), but there may be other ways to do that.
> What kind of use (aside of getting rid of <not available> in dumpe2fs
> output) do you have in mind?

On AIX, it is possible to import a volume group, and it automatically
builds /etc/fstab entries from information stored in the fs.  Having the
"last mounted on" would have the mount point info, and of course LVM
would hold the device names.

Cheers, Andreas
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