On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:11:41PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote: > Perhaps it is also time to put the dentry + mnt into a single struct path? > It's a small change, but it emphasizes that the two items here, dentry+mnt, > really define a single path to be passed around: No. The vfsmount will go away completely medium-term once we get right of the atomic open nfs hack that paases a file back in the open intent. A normal filesystem has not business looking at the vfsmount instance at all, and the raw open/create we need to replace the atomic open hack will need the full nameidata per definition, also to allow things like a multi-component lookup that various cluster/network filesystems really want. - 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