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From: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:09:30 -0800
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh-bdq14YP6qtRlEiWPh9xO2Q@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 17 2008 00:43, Karel Zak wrote:
> >> 
> >> Seems like a plain bad idea to me.  There will be any number of home-made
> >> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
> >
> > So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2  ;-)
> 
> Was not it like "don't use /proc for new things"?

Well yeah.  If we're going to do a brand new mechanism to expose
per-mount data then we should hunker down and get it right.