Re: Configuring default mount options..

["A. James Lewis" <james@fsck.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 03:10 +0200, Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen wrote:
> On 26 July 2010 02:56, A. James Lewis <james@fsck.co.uk> wrote:
> > If using BTRFS on a removable drive... it may be a problem for example,
> > to always mount with compression, or always mount with encryption (If
> > supported in future)... perhaps btrfstune could define default mount
> > options, such as compression... so if there is a BTRFS filesystem on a
> > removable hard drive, or flash stick, the filesystem can be configured
> > to mount with compression by default.
> >
> > Maybe there is a way to do this already, but it seems like the
> > filesystem itself should contain preferences for the way it is used
> > under those circumstances.
> >
> > A. James Lewis
> >
> >
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> 
> That's actually a good idea. Perhaps an override flag could be
> specified in case you do not wish to use said default mount options?
> 
Indeed, if any mount options are specified they would override
defaults... but if you plug in a removable drive, you there's no way to
specify mount options, but it's quite likley that you would want some,
like compression for example.


> Regards,
> Sebastian J.