On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:32:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A global default doesn't preclude per-mountpoint > > settings. This patch makes the existing kernel code more useful and so > > is worthwhile on its own, even if it doesn't scratch everyone's itch. > > The standard, usual, expected way of modifying a filesystem's behaviour > is via mount options. This is also quite flexible. Yes, if something is configured at a per-filesystem level, a mount option makes sense. I don't personally see any terribly sensible use cases for having this be per-filesystem and so wasn't planning on implementing that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
