On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Al Viro wrote:
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> These days there's no reason to register the filesystem types
> that can only be used for internal mounts - ia64 pfmfs, anon_inodes,
> bdev, pipefs and sockfs, in the current tree. The only user-visible
> effect of dropping those register
We used to require register_filesystem() before any mounts
(including the internal ones) could be done. For userland mounts
it's obviously right - how else could fs type name -> file_system_type
lookup be done? For internal ones, it used to be really needed for
a while, but after some API
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