Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:57:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> ... 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 > > Hell, no. The first field is in principle impossible to parse unless > you know the fs type. > > How about making a new file with sane format? From the very > beginning. E.g. mountpoint + ID + relative path + type + options, > where ID uniquely identifies superblock (e.g. numeric st_dev) > and backing device (if any) is sitting among the options... Okay, I see there has been some discussion on this earlier, based on a proposal by Ram Pai, so it pretty much comes down to redesigning this right. I see some issues with his proposal (device numbers exported to userspace in text form should be separated into major:minor form, for one thing.) I know the util-linux-ng people have also had issues with /proc/mounts that they would like resolved in order to finally nuke /etc/mtab. Is Ram still working on this? I'd like to help make this happen so we can be done with it. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
