On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. Peter, I am not working on it currently. But i am interested in getting it done. I have the seed set of patches which had Al Viro's ideas incorporated. Infact those patches were sent on lkml 2 months back. Shall we start with those patches? RP > > -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
