On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Linus, I doubt that making the thing inline was a good idea. Reason: for
> > filesystems like NFS we almost definitely want something like server name
> > + root path to identify the superblock. And that can easily grow past
> > 32 bytes.
>
> Since it is only used for printouts, I'd much rather have simpler code.
FWIW, smbfs will want to know the servername + "share" used to mount it.
It will use that info to get smbconnect to do the proper magic to get a
new connection. So it doesn't have to be just printouts.
If this field is meant to be accessed by the fs code then I could put that
info there. Or someone could set it to dev_name in get_sb_nodev (if that
string is what I think it is).
Or I can do what I do now and pass it as a separate option and keep it in
a smbfs private area.
/Urban
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