On 21 Jun 2007, Miklos Szeredi said: > I'm working on this actually. See this (and related patches) in -mm: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/broken-out/unprivileged-mounts-add-user-mounts-to-the-kernel.patch > > This solves the "user=" thing, but is not a generic solution for other > options. And I'm wondering if there is really a need for that. I'm not sure there is, actually... > Which quota options are you thinking about? Some quota options > (e.g. for ext*) seem to be already present in /proc/mounts. ... last I checked, usrquota and grpquota weren't being propagated in, but that's changed sometime in the last, um, wow, has it been two years already? Perhaps I should have checked again before babbling nonsense to an audience of thousands, sorry! > Do you know any other options which are only in /etc/mtab, and need to > be stored along with each mount? None presently, but in general it seems strange to have to modify the kernel in order to be able to reliably associate some new key/value pair with a mount point, let alone to have to do it on a filesystem-by- filesystem basis... -- `... in the sense that dragons logically follow evolution so they would be able to wield metal.' --- Kenneth Eng's colourless green ideas sleep furiously - 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
