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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>register_filesystem</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API" /><link rel="up" href="ch01s06.html" title="Other Functions" /><link rel="prev" href="re115.html" title="seq_write" /><link rel="next" href="re117.html" title="unregister_filesystem" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>register_filesystem</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re115.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Other Functions</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re117.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="register_filesystem"><a id="API-register-filesystem"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>register_filesystem —
register a new filesystem
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">register_filesystem </b>(</code></td><td>struct file_system_type * <var class="pdparam">fs</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3019961"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>fs</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
the file system structure
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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.
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The <span class="structname">struct file_system_type</span> that is passed is linked into the kernel
structures and must not be freed until the file system has been
unregistered.
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