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31.Dd May 23, 2009
32.Dt VFS_MOUNT 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm VFS_MOUNT
36.Nd mount a file system
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/mount.h
40.In sys/vnode.h
41.Ft int
42.Fn VFS_MOUNT "struct mount *mp"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn VFS_MOUNT
46macro mounts a file system into the system's namespace or updates the
47attributes of an already mounted file system.
48.Pp
49The arguments it expects are:
50.Bl -tag -width data
51.It Fa mp
52Structure representing the file system.
53.El
54.Pp
55The
56.Fn VFS_MOUNT
57macro is called both to mount new file systems and to change the
58attributes of an existing file system.
59If the
60.Dv MNT_UPDATE
61flag is set in
62.Fa mp->mnt_flag
63then the file system should update its internal state from the value of
64.Fa mp->mnt_flag .
65This can be used, for instance, to convert a read-only file system to
66read-write.
67It is also used by
68.Xr mountd 8
69to update the NFS export information for the file system.
70.Pp
71If the
72.Dv MNT_UPDATE
73flag is not specified, then this is a newly mounted file system.
74The file system code should allocate and initialize
75any private data needed to represent
76the file system (it can use the
77.Fa mp->mnt_data
78field to store this information).
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr VFS 9 ,
81.Xr vnode 9
82.Sh AUTHORS
83This manual page was written by
84.An Doug Rabson .
85