Subject: Re: How .. is resolved at mountpoints
To: Jonathan Fuerth <fuerth@jake.capybara.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/16/2000 13:12:15
Jonathan Fuerth wrote:

> Finally, I notice that when I fsck my filesystems (say, after a power failure)
> I'm told where the filesystem was last mounted.  How and where (and why) is
> this information stored?

This info is stored in the superblock of the filesystem (look in
/usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h).  It's _very_ useful when you rearrage
a whole bunch of SCSI id's and want to make sure things are where
they should be :-)

Simon.