On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 01:58, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 10:23:08PM +0200, Dan Luedtke wrote: > >> To throw something in the ring, I suggest we append all printk() after >> mounting (e.g. fill_super when autodetecting a fs) with key/value pairs >> like >> filesystem=mycoolfs Filesystem types can be reliably derived from the major:minor of the superblock, even for non-device-backed mounts. I don't think that is needed. A "DEVICE=b0:27" would be enough for most, if not all, use cases. >> device=sda1 The time of assuming single-device mounts and filesystems should be over. I don't think any new stuff should appear that way in any export, especially not with the textual device name, when we have reliably working dev_t numbers already. >> success=true Not sure if that's really useful, we either mounted it or we didn't. And how would a failure look like success=failed-with-error-7. >> I hope this gets the discussion started! > > You've missed the all-important > bikeshed_colour= That sounds useful, and it's nicely machine-readable. It think it should be all uppercase, and to avoid localization problems we should assign every color a UUID so that it looks like: "BIKESHED_COLOR=fae73a2d-0a20-4b70-bd5a-7e9af2894508 :)". Kay -- 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
