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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:40:31 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:26:50AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Let me put it that way: I don't understand why (if it is useful at all)
> > it is done in the fs. Looks like a wrong level...
> 
> For the same reason that the UUID and LABEL are stored in the superblock:
> you want this infomation kept with the filesystem and not anywhere else,
> otherwise it will quickly get out-of-date.  Wherever you mounted the
> filesystem last is where it would be mounted if you import the VG on
> another system.  You can obviously edit /etc/fstab afterwards if it is
> wrong, and then remount the filesystem(s), and this will store the
> correct mountpoint into the filesystem for the next vgimport.

Al is saying `why not do this in mount(8) instead of mount(2)?'  I haven't
seen you answer that yet.

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