From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerome de Vivie Subject: Re: Use of "device" argument in mount. Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 17:04:33 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EBBC381.ECEE3FC6@free.fr> References: <3EBBBCCB.8B4B24B7@free.fr> <20030509154048.A26528@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, fist@cs.columbia.edu Return-path: Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.62]:27570 "EHLO postfix4-1.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263274AbTEIOwl (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 10:52:41 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: >=20 > 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= =2E As > > for loopback mount, i wish to use the device argument to pass a pat= hname > > to a stackable filesystem. Is it easyly doable ? >=20 > 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. --=20 J=E9r=F4me de Vivie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html