On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 2. Why is the information about mounted filesystems split into two
> separate entities 'struct super_block' and 'struct vfsoumnt'? Can't we
> merge the two lists into one? I used to think that superblocks
> and vfsmnt entities have different lifetimes but no longer think so, which
> raises this question. The obvious reason why would one want to merge them
> is, for example, to save 12 bytes (on 32bit arch) per each mounted
Stop it. Now. The obvious reason _not_ to do it is the difference between
the filesystem and mounting it. IOW, you _refer_ to superblock from
vfsmount. Nobody promises that you'll have only one mountpoint for given
filesystem.
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