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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: Is a NULL check missing in nfs_lookup?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:22:03 -0700
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> I guess the question is, why shouldn't a dentry object know what
> vfsmount it belongs to is?  Can it belong to multiple vfsmount objects?
> (Again, probably showing my igornance here).

If you have the same tree mounted in two places, they'll have
different vfsmounts.