From: Jerome de Vivie <jerome.devivie@free.fr>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, fist@cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Use of "device" argument in mount.
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 17:04:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EBBC381.ECEE3FC6@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030509154048.A26528@infradead.org
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:35:55PM +0200, Jerome de Vivie wrote:
> >
> > In loopback mount, a pathname could be used for the device argument. As
> > for loopback mount, i wish to use the device argument to pass a pathname
> > to a stackable filesystem. Is it easyly doable ?
>
> In Linux 2.4 it's not doable, in Linux 2.5 it's easily doable.
Yes: in 2.5 sb_get is definable so it's very easy. In 2.4, NFS is using
this device argument but i still don't understand how it works.
regards,
j.
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Jérôme de Vivie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 14:35 Use of "device" argument in mount Jerome de Vivie
2003-05-09 14:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-09 15:04 ` Jerome de Vivie [this message]
2003-05-09 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-09 14:44 ` [FiST] " Erez Zadok
2003-05-09 15:08 ` Jerome de Vivie
2003-05-09 14:55 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-05-09 15:53 ` Bryan Henderson
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