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From: jon <jon@jonshouse.co.uk>
To: coreutils@gnu.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:01:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435924919.6501.432.camel@jonspc> (raw)

Hi, could I make a hugely nieve user request :-) 

Would it be possible to add a new mount option to everything?

New mount option 'com' = "create on mount" (implied remove on unmount).


Example fstab entry
/mounts/amountpoint	LABEL=notalwayshere	ext4,com


# ls /mounts
# mount /mounts/amountpoint
# ls /mounts
amountpoint
# umount /mounts/amountpoint
# ls /mounts
# 


The idea is to create a mount point directory (one level only) if does
not exist when an FS is mounted, umount would remove it when an FS is
unmounted (assuming it was empty) otherwise generate a warning.

As the 'com' flag would need to carried with the mount I assume the
logic would have to be handled in mount() and umount() call itself ?

I can see issues if the mount point directory is read only or similar,
but I am sure most cases could be handled with just a warning.

Many thanks,
Jon



             reply	other threads:[~2015-07-03 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-03 12:01 jon [this message]
2015-07-04 20:56 ` Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-07-04 22:48   ` jon
2015-07-05 14:29     ` Al Viro
2015-07-05 15:46       ` jon
2015-07-05 17:39         ` Al Viro
2015-07-05 23:35           ` jon
2015-07-06  1:08             ` Al Viro
2015-07-06  2:34               ` jon
2015-07-06  3:07                 ` Al Viro
2015-07-06  5:40                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-07-15 14:38     ` Karel Zak

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