Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab

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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:11:40PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>
> >>> A lot of these could be fixed all at once by letting the filesystem tell
> >>> the VFS to retain the string passed to the original mount.  That will
> >>  Unfortunately, the original option string (from userspace) != real
> >>  options (in kernel), see NFS. This bug should be fixed -- the kernel
> >>  has to fully follow mount(2) or ends with EINVAL.
> > 
> > Way ahead of you... See patches 6 and 7 on
> > 
> >   http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.22-rc3/

  :-)

> NFS takes a binary option block anyway.  However, that's the exception,
> not the rule.

 I'm not sure, but I think that cifs and ncpfs (NetWare) are
 exceptions too.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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