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From: Grant Miner <mine0057@mrs.umn.edu>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: A file-based interface for mount
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 21:52:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F078EF1.6090908@mrs.umn.edu> (raw)

Would it make sense to use a file interface in the file system to 
control mounting?  Have a file that exists per-directory named ..mount 
(or something).  Then, to mount /dev/sda on /home, echo "/dev/sda rw" > 
/home/..mount
To unmount the file system, remove the line from the ..mounts file.  You 
could also do plan 9 layered mounts (with priorities) by putting 2 or 
more lines in that file.  The advantage is you could set access controls 
on each file to easily let non-root users perform mount at certain 
directories, and you don't need the mount and unmount commands anymore.

What do you think?


             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-06  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-06  2:52 Grant Miner [this message]
2003-07-09 13:18 ` A file-based interface for mount Hans Reiser
2003-07-09 13:42   ` Nikita Danilov
2003-07-09 17:01     ` Grant Miner
2003-07-09 17:08       ` Nikita Danilov
2003-07-09 17:56         ` Grant Miner
2003-07-09 19:17     ` Hubert Chan
2003-07-09 21:32       ` Advangates (A file-based interface for mount) Grant Miner
2003-07-10  2:55         ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2003-07-10  5:41           ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11  6:59           ` Toby Dickenson
2003-07-11  7:30             ` Russell Coker
2003-07-10 12:22         ` Timothy Webster

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