From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos-sUDqSbJrdHQHWmgEVkV9KA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: util-linux-ng-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:40:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465EFA91.6070705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HtnWS-0007UV-00-VFwzv6uONVrxNFs70CDYszOMxtEWgIxa@public.gmane.org>
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> (2) needs work in the filesystems implicated. I already have patches
> for ext2, ext3, tmpfs, devpts and hostfs, and it would be nice if the
> maintainers for others could help out.
>
A lot of these could be fixed all at once by letting the filesystem tell
the VFS to retain the string passed to the original mount. That will
solve *almost* all filesystems which take string options.
On the other hand, maybe it's cleaner to present a canonical view of the
options. Note that /etc/mtab does not, however.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 16:29 [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <E1HtnWS-0007UV-00-VFwzv6uONVrxNFs70CDYszOMxtEWgIxa@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-31 16:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-31 16:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <465EFA91.6070705-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-05-31 23:04 ` Karel Zak
2007-05-31 23:30 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1180654235.7084.32.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 0:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <465F643C.7090008-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 4:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-01 7:35 ` Karel Zak
[not found] ` <20070601073516.GJ5473-CxBs/XhZ2BtHjqfyn1fVYA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-02 16:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-31 23:47 ` David Chinner
2007-05-31 22:44 ` Karel Zak
2007-06-01 7:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <E1Hu1Ak-0000yV-00-VFwzv6uONVrxNFs70CDYszOMxtEWgIxa@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 8:33 ` Karel Zak
[not found] ` <20070601083309.GK5473-CxBs/XhZ2BtHjqfyn1fVYA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 8:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20070601084905.GA1959-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 9:44 ` Karel Zak
2007-06-01 9:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <E1Hu3on-0001HT-00-VFwzv6uONVrxNFs70CDYszOMxtEWgIxa@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 10:50 ` Karel Zak
[not found] ` <20070531224443.GH5473-CxBs/XhZ2BtHjqfyn1fVYA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-01 8:36 ` Matthias Koenig
2007-06-02 13:15 ` Roman Zippel
2007-06-06 15:35 ` Ian Kent
2007-06-03 15:42 ` James Cloos
[not found] ` <m3myzh11t2.fsf-eUECQUGGJJCHAtaq1fIXeWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-03 16:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4662ED39.4060107-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-03 19:38 ` James Cloos
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