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On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:14:07PM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:58:14AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > Is there something specific you were wondering about?
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> I was wondering for what purposes VFS_MOUNT() is used. According to
> vfsops(9) is used for mounting and updating mount flags. But looking
> at the code of various of NetBSD's filesystem it appears also to
> be used for querying information.

Hmmm.... I'm not familiar with that usage. Oh, I see some of it is the=20
GETARGS usage. I guess Christos added that w/o documenting.

> And some documentation about the handling of NFS exports would be

I know some, but given the above, I'm not sure I know enough to help you.=
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The simple answer is that you use the mount system call to control who can=
=20
access the file system. VFS_MOUNT() turns that into a call to=20
vfs_export(). To turn a file handle into a vnode, VFS_FHTOVP(). Then to=20
check exports, VFS_CHECKEXP(). Note that fhopen(2) and friends also use=20
VFS_FHTOVP().

For the most part, NFS export issues are handled by vfs-common code that=20
the specific file system merely has to hook into.

Does that help any? I realize you might have already known that. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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