Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree

Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-30T09:45:02Z

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> Please check if the following modified patch meets the requirements.
>
> It augments /proc/mount with additional information to
> (1) disambiguate bind mounts with subroot information.
> (2) display shared-subtree information using which one can
> determine the propagation trees.
>
>
> The following additional fields are appended to each record
> in /proc/mounts

NACK. Adding anything to the format will confuse the hell out of
existing parsers. We really want something like your /proc/<pid>/mounts_new,
except mounts_new should have a better name (/proc/<pid>/ns anyone? :))