2008/5/20 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>:>?Hi Al,> No, you have not and no, doing that anywhere near that layer is hopeless.>> a) Instances of filesystem can easily outlive all vfsmounts,> let alone their attachment to namespaces.I see! Whoops...> b) What should happen if init is done in the middle of exit?Okay, I guess *some* sort of locking is in order. :)> c) Why do we need to bother, anyway?Well, just for the reason I mentioned, I saw the posting about XFSstarting threads (when compiled into the kernel), but there's no useof an XFS filesystem at all - there was a suggestion that somethinglike this be tried, so I thought I'd give it a go.Thanks for replying!-- Regards,Tom Spink