On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:03:43PM +0100, 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... Yeah. How about include propagation trees to this file? mountpoint + ID + relative path + type + options + propagation-flag + {peer,master}-mount-id / 0xa917800 / ext3 rw PRIVATE /mnt 0xa917100 / ext3 rw SHARED peer:0xa917100 /tmp 0xa917f00 /1 ext3 rw SLAVE master:0xa917100 Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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