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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:21:05 +0100
From: Ragnar Kj?rstad <kernel@ragnark.vestdata.no>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;
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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 Kj?rstad
Big Storage
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