VFS_MOUNT
—
mount a file system
The VFS_MOUNT
() macro mounts a file system into the
system's namespace or updates the attributes of an already mounted file
system.
The arguments it expects are:
- mp
- Structure representing the file system.
The VFS_MOUNT
() macro is called both to
mount new file systems and to change the attributes of an existing file
system. If the MNT_UPDATE
flag is set in
mp->mnt_flag then the file system should update its
internal state from the value of mp->mnt_flag. This
can be used, for instance, to convert a read-only file system to read-write.
It is also used by
mountd(8)
to update the NFS export information for the file system.
If the MNT_UPDATE
flag is not specified,
then this is a newly mounted file system. The file system code should
allocate and initialize any private data needed to represent the file system
(it can use the mp->mnt_data field to store this
information).
This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.