From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "A. James Lewis" Subject: Re: Configuring default mount options.. Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:23:06 +0100 Message-ID: <1280107386.3327.8.camel@hardline> References: <1280105806.3327.4.camel@hardline> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 03:10 +0200, Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen wrote: > On 26 July 2010 02:56, A. James Lewis 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > 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.