Re: Adding subroot information to /proc/mounts, or obtaining that through other means

Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-06-20T23:09:57Z

* Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:57:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >

<snip>

> > ... or, alternatively, add a subfield to the first field (which would
> > entail escaping whatever separator we choose):
> >
> > /dev/md6 /export ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
> > /dev/md6:/users/foo /home/foo ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
> > /dev/md6:/users/bar /home/bar ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
>
> We needn't a new separator (':') there already is one (' ').

What happens with the (sick) case of spaces in directory names?
Also is it really nicely defined that there is no way to put a space
in an option in any of the filesystems? I suppose someone
particularly sick could have a device node in a directory with a space
in it. It would be nice if new formats for this are being defined
to make it cover everything.

Dave
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