From: jon <jon@jonshouse.co.uk>
To: coreutils@gnu.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:01:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435924919.6501.432.camel@jonspc> (raw)
Hi, could I make a hugely nieve user request :-)
Would it be possible to add a new mount option to everything?
New mount option 'com' = "create on mount" (implied remove on unmount).
Example fstab entry
/mounts/amountpoint LABEL=notalwayshere ext4,com
# ls /mounts
# mount /mounts/amountpoint
# ls /mounts
amountpoint
# umount /mounts/amountpoint
# ls /mounts
#
The idea is to create a mount point directory (one level only) if does
not exist when an FS is mounted, umount would remove it when an FS is
unmounted (assuming it was empty) otherwise generate a warning.
As the 'com' flag would need to carried with the mount I assume the
logic would have to be handled in mount() and umount() call itself ?
I can see issues if the mount point directory is read only or similar,
but I am sure most cases could be handled with just a warning.
Many thanks,
Jon
next reply other threads:[~2015-07-03 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-03 12:01 jon [this message]
2015-07-04 20:56 ` Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-07-04 22:48 ` jon
2015-07-05 14:29 ` Al Viro
2015-07-05 15:46 ` jon
2015-07-05 17:39 ` Al Viro
2015-07-05 23:35 ` jon
2015-07-06 1:08 ` Al Viro
2015-07-06 2:34 ` jon
2015-07-06 3:07 ` Al Viro
2015-07-06 5:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-07-15 14:38 ` Karel Zak
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