Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:40:05 -0400 From: Theron Tarigo <theron.tarigo@gmail.com> To: Alfonso Sabato Siciliano <alfix86@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount system call for nullfs Message-ID: <7edc3b8a-5278-dcfb-538e-a9d968dde9fc@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <76f78cee-e62a-67fb-3d84-e420c50a4ba1@gmail.com> References: <CAPJrGM3NdM1oCGPMMnUut6Qu=EsCcmJz=_Jy8=micdCjni8wpA@mail.gmail.com> <76f78cee-e62a-67fb-3d84-e420c50a4ba1@gmail.com>
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Sorry, I notice now this: On 04/12/18 21:30, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano wrote: > (the implementation of mount_nullfs(8) uses nmount syscall so it is not > usefulI; Why would mount instead of nmount be more useful? /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.c notes that /* XXX: We need to get away from implementing external mount * programs for every filesystem, and move towards having * each filesystem properly implement the nmount() system call. */ It might be that mount_nullfs only works at the moment with the nmount-based implementation, in which case you would need to work around this.
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