mount_xfs question

[Assar Westerlund]

Cheng Jin <chengjin at eecs.umich.edu> writes:
> the device /dev/xfs0 is created only for message passing between arlad and
> the lkm.  in the following command when starting arla,
> 
> /usr/arla/bin/mount_xfs /dev/xfs0 /afs
> 
> mount_xfs is really used to create the root vnode(?) and init mount point
> for /afs in kernel so we can replace /dev/xfs0 with anything we
> want as long as we create that device with the same major # used by the
> lkm.  Is that correct?

Yes.  As long as you have a device of the correct major number for xfs
and the minor number you want to use you can call it anything.

/assar