Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #2]]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:49:57AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> The attached patch extends the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an 
> extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that 
> defines the mountpoint.

NACK.  Filesystem has not business at all to look at the vfsmount during
mount.

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