Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab

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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
> solve *almost* all filesystems which take string options.

Except some filesystems mangle that string as it gets passed around
(i.e. XFS)....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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