Re: [PATCH 12/12] vfs: don't parse "silent" option

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 04:59:40PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> While this is a standard option as documented in mount(8), it is ignored by
> most filesystems.  So reject, unless filesystem explicitly wants to handle
> it.
>
> The exception is unconverted filesystems, where it is unknown if the
> filesystem handles this or not.
> 
> Any implementation, such as mount(8), that needs to parse this option
> without failing can simply ignore the return value from fsconfig().

Unless I'm missing something, that will mean that having it in /etc/fstab
for a converted filesystem (xfs, for example) will fail when booting
new kernel with existing /sbin/mount.  Doesn't sound like a good idea...



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