On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:36:11AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > I'd suggest doing a new file that would *not* try to imitate /etc/mtab.
> > Another thing is, how much of propagation information do we want to
> > be exposed and what do we intend to do with it?
>
> I think the scheme devised by Ram is basically right. It shows the
> relationships (slave, peer) and the ID of a master/peer mount.
Yes. It also shows the full relationship between source and
destination for bind mounts. Now the /proc/mounts is useless:
# mount --bind /mnt/test /mnt/test2
# cat /proc/mounts | grep test
/dev/root /mnt/test2 ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
> > What do we want to *do* with the information about propagation?
>
> Just feedback about the state of the thing. It's very annoying, that
> after setting up propagation, it's impossible to check the result.
Exactly.
Karel
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