On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:51:24PM +0000, Mathieu Dube wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:32 +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > > It might be mounted at any number of places, including 0. Moreover, > > it might be mounted at some place only to be immediately moved > > elsewhere. > > > > The question makes no sense. > > Im sorry Im fairly new to this. > > youre saying there is no way to know the mount point unless its already > mounted? He's saying that even if you happen to know where it's currently mounted, there's no guarantee the place where it's mounted might not be changed without your filesystem knowing. Indeed, it can be mounted nowhere at all (and yet still active) or it can be mounted in 2 or more places at the same time. What you've told us you're trying to do is impossible. > I need to know the subtree that will be made invisible once the fs is > mounted > > is there a way ? No way at all. What are you actually trying to do? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html