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37 .Nd mount a filesystem
43 .Fn VFS_MOUNT "struct mount *mp" "char *path" "caddr_t data" "struct nameidata *ndp" "struct proc *p"
45 Mount a filesystem into the system's namespace.
50 Structure representing the filesystem.
52 Pathname where the filesystem is being mounted.
54 Filesystem specific data. This should be read into the kernel using
57 Contains the result of a
59 call on the pathname of the mountpoint.
61 Process which is mounting the filesystem.
64 This is called both to mount new filesystems and to change the
65 attributes of an existing filesystem. If the
69 then the filesystem should update its internal state from the value of
71 This can be used, for instance, to convert a read-only filesystem to
75 to update the NFS export information for the filesystem.
79 flag is not specified, then this is a newly mounted filesystem. The
80 filesystem code should allocate and initialize
81 any private data needed to represent
82 the filesystem (it can use the
84 field to store this information).
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