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36 .Nd mount a filesystem
42 .Fn VFS_MOUNT "struct mount *mp" "char *path" "caddr_t data" "struct nameidata *ndp" "struct proc *p"
44 Mount a filesystem into the system's namespace.
49 Structure representing the filesystem.
51 Pathname where the filesystem is being mounted.
53 Filesystem specific data. This should be read into the kernel using
56 Contains the result of a
58 call on the pathname of the mountpoint.
60 Process which is mounting the filesystem.
63 This is called both to mount new filesystems and to change the
64 attributes of an existing filesystem. If the
68 then the filesystem should update its internal state from the value of
70 This can be used, for instance, to convert a read-only filesystem to
74 to update the NFS export information for the filesystem.
78 flag is not specified, then this is a newly mounted filesystem. The
79 filesystem code should allocate and initialize
80 any private data needed to represent
81 the filesystem (it can use the
83 field to store this information).
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