Re: entry point to mount a file system

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On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:39:48 -0800 "Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)"
<bgholikh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am trying to debug why I am not able to mount a filesystem on my
> system, I am tyring to do that from kernel. I need to know what are the
> entry points in the kernel when the mount system call is called and
> where kernel looks for the filesystem types? 

Ehm, you shouldn't mount filesystems from the kernel in the first
place. The kernel only mounts its root filesystem, everything else is
done from userland. Either put an entry in the fstab, or explicitly
mount it from an init script.


Erik

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