From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:47:43 +1000 Message-ID: <20070531234743.GU86004887@sgi.com> References: <465EFA91.6070705@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Szeredi , util-linux-ng-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <465EFA91.6070705-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: util-linux-ng-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:40:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. Except some filesystems mangle that string as it gets passed around (i.e. XFS).... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group