On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > The flag MNT_RELOAD is not documented in mount manpages. From the source > > code, I find that it is always used along with MNT_UPDATE which can be > > speficied by user (-u option). Can anyone explain the usage of MNT_RELOAD > > for me? It seems not to be used normally. > > > It is created almost exclusively for fsck (and similar programs) to update > the in core image of the superblock (of / in single user mode) after the > on disk version has been modified. >
Does fsck have to run on a MOUNTED filesystem? If so, your answer makes sense to me: if fsck modifies the on-disk copy of the superblock, it does not have to unmount and then remount the filesystem, it only need to reload the superlock for disk. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
