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29.Dd November 21, 2001
30.Dt VFS_GETNEWFSID 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm vfs_getnewfsid
34.Nd "allocate a new file system identifier"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/mount.h
38.Ft void
39.Fn vfs_getnewfsid "struct mount *mp"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Fn vfs_getnewfsid
43function allocates a new file system identifier for the mount point given.
44File systems typically call
45.Fn vfs_getnewfsid
46in their mount routine in order to acquire a unique ID within the system
47which can later be used to uniquely identify the file system via calls such as
48.Xr vfs_getvfs 9 .
49.Pp
50The actual
51.Vt fsid
52is made up of two 32 bit integers, that are stored in the
53.Vt statfs
54structure of
55.Fa mp .
56The first integer is unique in the set of mounted file systems,
57while the second holds the file system type.
58.Bd -literal
59typedef	struct fsid {
60	int32_t val[2];
61} fsid_t;
62.Ed
63.Sh PSEUDOCODE
64.Bd -literal
65xxx_mount(struct mount *mp, char *path, caddr_t data,
66	struct nameidata *ndp, struct thread *td)
67{
68	...
69	vfs_getnewfsid(mp);
70	...
71}
72.Ed
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.Xr vfs_getvfs 9
75.Sh AUTHORS
76This manual page was written by
77.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
78