Re: OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e

Jari Ruusu
2004-09-21T16:44:29Z

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> People have asked repeatedly for a way to mark lines in /etc/fstab
> so as to make clear that such lines are managed by some GUI or other
> external program. Labels like "kudzu".
> In this release I added a comment convention for /etc/fstab: options
> can have a part starting with \; - that part is ignored by mount
> but can be used by other programs managing fstab.

How about implementing /etc/fstab option parsing code that is compatible
with existing libc /etc/fstab parsing code:

defaults,noauto,comment=kudzu,rw
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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