Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= (kernel@ragnark.vestdata.no)
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:21:05 +0100


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.

-- 
Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage
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