From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Justin Banks <justinb@bakbone.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where's the create() pointer?
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:12:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200759175.8028.6.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080119150718.GA14765@bleen.domain.actdsltmp>
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 08:07 -0700, Justin Banks wrote:
> It's probably been this way for a long time, and I'm just noticing, but
> I can't seem to find the create() (among others) pointer for NFS filesystems.
>
> Specifically, If I look at sb->s_root->d_inode->i_op there's no create
> there. How do I find it? I'm guessing that the ability to share mount
> structures between multiple NFS mounts resulted in some kind of fake
> superblock, but I just can't figure out where to find the functions.
Why would you want to do this in the first place?
Anyhow, to answer the question: sb->s_root is not guaranteed to be a
real file on NFS. The real mountpoints are usually in the anonymous
dentry list.
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-19 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-19 15:07 Justin Banks
2008-01-19 16:12 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2008-01-19 19:02 ` Justin Banks
2008-01-19 20:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-01-20 3:31 ` Justin Banks
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