From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen" Subject: Re: Configuring default mount options.. Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:42:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1280105806.3327.4.camel@hardline> <1280107386.3327.8.camel@hardline> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: "A. James Lewis" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1280107386.3327.8.camel@hardline> List-ID: On 26 July 2010 03:23, A. James Lewis wrote: > 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 exa= mple, >> > to always mount with compression, or always mount with encryption = (If >> > supported in future)... perhaps btrfstune could define default mou= nt >> > options, such as compression... so if there is a BTRFS filesystem = on a >> > removable hard drive, or flash stick, the filesystem can be config= ured >> > 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 use= d >> > under those circumstances. >> > >> > A. James Lewis >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bt= rfs" in >> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info= =2Ehtml >> > >> >> 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. > > > Oh, you're talking about udisks/HAL automount feature I assume. It should be possible to specify mount parameters in some way for those implementations, but that isn't really a "fix" if you're using multiple computers - a per-drive mount parameter stored somewhere on the drive wouldn't be that bad to save some time. Regards, Sebastian J. -- 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