From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from nagini.codelibre.net ([80.68.93.164]:56938 "EHLO nagini.codelibre.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755153Ab3AHKxT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 05:53:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:44:43 +0000 From: Roger Leigh To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Preservation of non-kernel mount options Message-ID: <20130108104443.GF3739@codelibre.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Apologies if this is already implemented in git and I didn't notice. Options like _netdev, comment= etc. are currently just ignored by mount AFAICS. It would however be quite useful if they could be preserved in e.g. utab if possible so that you can use this to label mounts so that you can query for the information later using e.g. mount or findmnt. Is this something which might be possible to add if it's not already possible? It turned out (at least in Debian) that some users were using the "bind" option to track which filesystems were to be e.g. backed up, space usage checked etc. (or not). With the switch to /proc/mounts this information has been lost. While using the bind option to do this is debatable, I was looking for a better and more robust solution to their problem, and being able to attach comments to the mounts seemed like it would fit in with the existing tools if they could be stored. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800