On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Karel Zak wrote: > Well, I'd like kill all current userspace specific mount options and > then remove /etc/mtab from Linux. We need to maintain all information > about mounted devices in /proc/self/mountinfo only. The /etc/mtab is > horrible legacy... > > My dream is a generic mount(2) option string (e.g. "usernote=<string>") > that will be ignored by Linux kernel, but always presented in > /proc/self/mountinfo. This option we can use for userspace specific > information rather than mtab. > > Miklos, any comment? Should be doable, but not with the current mount(2) API, which still allows the "data" argument to be a binary blob. But anyway, the mount syscall needs to be deprecated in favor of some new syscalls, each of which does a specific action (mount, change, bind/move) and doesn't suffer from the problems of the current interface, e.g. running out of MS_* flags. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
