register_filesystem(9)

register_filesystem9

Register a new filesystem

Usage

int register_filesystem(struct file_system_type * fs);

Arguments

fs

the file system structure

Overview

Adds the file system passed to the list of file systems the kernel is aware of for mount and other syscalls. Returns 0 on success, or a negative errno code on an error.

The struct file_system_type that is passed is linked into the kernel structures and must not be freed until the file system has been unregistered.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.