Hi,
some of you already know about my old plan to write the libmount. The
library should be useful for mount(8) and primarily for FS-depend
/bin/mount.<type> helpers or autofs (or also for HAL?)
I'd like to start with small and simple library that is useful for:
- mtab, fstab, /proc/mounts and /proc/self/mountinfo parsing
- mtab update (locking, ...)
- mount options (-o <string> or fourth field in fstab/mtab) parsing
- mount options evaluation and conversion to mount(2) flags and
"mountdata" string
The basic routines are already in the branch called "libmount" in the
util-linux-ng git tree.
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git
git checkout -f libmount
The library should be available as an experimental stuff in
util-linux-ng 2.15 (probably also with a new libblkid).
Note that my original plan (two years ago?) was to write a modular
library where FS-depend code is in .so object and mount(8) or autofs
dlopen such objects on demand (rather than exec(/sbin/mount.<type>).
I'm still not sure if this is a good idea... sounds as
over-engineering. We will see...
Your comments, suggestions and requirements are welcomed.
Karel
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