There is no way to trigger a mount in-kernel at the moment. Are DiskArbitration functionalities (produce devnode, probing, etc). not sufficient to achieve the desired behaviors?
Eric > On 8 Jan 2015, at 5:28 PM, Jorgen Lundman <lund...@lundman.net> wrote: > > > Hello lists, > > Trying to be compatible with upstream ZFS, we wish to cause snapshots to be > mounted automatically on access (usually triggered in vnop_lookup). But I > seem unable to cause mounts to happen from within the kernel. > > mount and __mac_mount has opaque structs and possibly deal only with copyin > from userspace. > > NFS uses kernel_mount() but it is not available (inlined due to only one > caller?) - Possibly I could call mount_list_add() myself, but "struct > mount" is also opaque. Seems to be a lot of hoops for such a basic feature. > > Is there no way to cause a mount to happen from the kernel? > > Lund > > -- > Jorgen Lundman | <lund...@lundman.net> > Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) > Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) > Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home) > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Filesystem-dev mailing list (Filesystem-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/filesystem-dev/etamura%40apple.com > > This email sent to etam...@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Filesystem-dev mailing list (Filesystem-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/filesystem-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
