From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:40:49 -0700 Message-ID: <465EFA91.6070705@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: util-linux-ng-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: util-linux-ng-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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. On the other hand, maybe it's cleaner to present a canonical view of the options. Note that /etc/mtab does not, however. -hpa