On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:50:13AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> A debian bug has requested that mount create the mount point if it
> does not exist yet. My initial reaction was no, but one use case does
> seem to be a good reason. That would be if you want to set up a tmpfs
> mount with several sub mounts in /etc/fstab. You currently can't do
> that since when the tmpfs is mounted, it is empty. Is this something
> that might be a good idea?
Yes, v2.23 release notes:
mount(8):
- supports new userspace mount option x-mount.mkdir[=<mode>] to
create mountpoints on demand
it's also in man page :)
Karel
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