On 9/23/05, Vivek Bhandwalkar <vivek.bhandwalkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can anybody explain how exactly the mount procedure takes place (in detail) > please tell me the step by step procedure > You can use " strace " to trace the mount call .............. mount call actually did sys_mount system-call, sys_mount did some tasks and then calls the get_sb fucntion of the file-system to get the superblock (which has the file-system information with the call back functions to work on files/directories and so on) .... After that mounting takes place ... You can see sys_mount in fs/namespace.c -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
