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

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:45:22AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

There's nothing to look _at_.  There is an object to be filled.
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- [Fwd: [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #2]]
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- Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #2]]
  - From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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