Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:45:15 -0700 (MST)

David Kleikamp writes:
> AIX stores all of this information in the LVM, not in the filesystem.
> The filesystem itself has nothing to do with importing and exporting
> volume groups. Having the information stored as part of LVM's metadata
> allows the utilities to only deal with LVM instead of every individual
> file system.

So you are saying that mount(8) writes into a field in the LVM LVCB or
something? Might be possible on Linux LVM as well...

Cheers, Andreas

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