Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:47:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:47:28 -0500 Received: from h24-65-192-120.cg.shawcable.net ([24.65.192.120]:34045 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:47:12 -0500 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200103141945.f2EJjF410285@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt; In-Reply-To: <3AAFC708.752B2819@austin.ibm.com> from Dave Kleikamp at "Mar 14, 2001 01:31:20 pm" To: Dave Kleikamp Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:45:15 -0700 (MST) CC: Andreas Dilger , Alexander Viro , Linux kernel development list , Linux FS development list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- 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/