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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #2]]
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:54:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060302085416.GW27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060302084522.GB21902@infradead.org>

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.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-02  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-01 21:49 [Fwd: [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #2]] Sam Vilain
2006-03-02  8:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-02  8:54   ` Al Viro [this message]

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