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From: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/3 - RPC metrics support
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:17:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406FA86F.A9748FFC@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611302B07BFD@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com

"Lever, Charles" wrote:
> 
> > Why not just save a copy of @devname in nfs_get_sb() ?  It's
> > the same name that's stored in struct vfsmount and reported
> > in /proc/mounts.
> 
> unless i've missed something, there are only two NFS functions
> that take vfsmount as an argument.  one is nfs_show_options, and
> the other is nfs_getattr.
> 
> the vfsmount struct is not available to the NFS client during a
> mount operation.

The devname string that fs/super.c:do_kern_mount() passes to
nfs_get_sb() via file_system_type->get_sb is passed to
alloc_vfsmount() and used there to initialise the vfsmount's
mnt_devname.  So while NFS doesn't have the vfsmount it does
have the same devname string.

Greg.
-- 
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-04  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-04  2:35 [PATCH] 1/3 - RPC metrics support Lever, Charles
2004-04-04  6:17 ` Greg Banks [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-01 17:05 Lever, Charles
2004-04-02  0:17 ` Greg Banks
2004-04-02  0:36 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-02  0:49   ` Greg Banks
2004-04-02  1:41     ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-02  2:42       ` Greg Banks
2004-04-01 16:45 Lever, Charles
2004-04-02  0:10 ` Greg Banks
2004-04-01 15:15 Lever, Charles
2004-04-01 23:58 ` Greg Banks
2004-04-02  0:34   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-02  2:33     ` Greg Banks
2004-03-31 16:57 Lever, Charles
2004-03-31 17:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-03-31 16:34 Lever, Charles
2004-03-31 16:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-01  8:13 ` Greg Banks

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