Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab

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On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:04 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:40:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > 
> > > (2) needs work in the filesystems implicated.  I already have patches
> > > for ext2, ext3, tmpfs, devpts and hostfs, and it would be nice if the
> > > maintainers for others could help out.
> > > 
> > 
> > A lot of these could be fixed all at once by letting the filesystem tell
> > the VFS to retain the string passed to the original mount.  That will
> 
>  Unfortunately, the original option string (from userspace) != real
>  options (in kernel), see NFS. This bug should be fixed -- the kernel
>  has to fully follow mount(2) or ends with EINVAL.

Way ahead of you... See patches 6 and 7 on

  http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.22-rc3/

Trond

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