Specifying a generic and per-fs mount line in /etc/fstab as well as no-canonicalize.

["Linda A. Walsh" <lkml@tlinx.org>]

Karel Zak wrote:
>
> Well, I'm trying to help you, so it would be nice to have more
> information about your use-case...
I think I explained that it was the default to follow user-specified
symbolic link names in following and echoing a path -- notable in shells
like bash.

if "/usr/src" is a symlink pointing to /home/src,

and under /home/src, packages points to ../packages, then when I
switch to /usr/src/packages, I see my path listed as /usr/src/packages:

>  cd /usr/src/packages
/usr/src/packages> pwd
/usr/src/packages

Only by asking an external util can I find the real name:
>  /bin/pwd
/home/packages

It's a display choice for *user-convenience* that was made over
years of feedback.

Why not allow the same paradigm in /etc/fstab and allow nocanonicalize as
an option with mounts in /etc/fstab?