Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess my question is this: for inodes inside the superblock, does > their superblock pointer point to the submount's superblock, or the > parent filesystem's superblock? They have to point to the submount superblock. Too many things would break, I think, if inode->i_sb pointed to the wrong place. As far as the VFS is concerned, apart from the way it is mounted, it's a perfectly normal superblock. David