Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt; | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:05:55 -0700 (MST) |
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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 -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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