On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:28:24AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I have a user request that mount be able to interpret the device > specifier for the journal_dev mount option, so that instead of having > to type something like > > mount -o journal_dev=0x0803 .... > > they could unstead use: "journal_dev=/dev/sda3" or even > "journal_dev=LABEL=ext_journal". I assume the right way to do this is > a mount helper? Or is this something that you would be willing to > accept as a patch into util-linux? At least for the device name the best is to implement it in the kernel, take a look at what XFS is doing for the log device. The open by dev_t functionality currently used by extN isn't something we like to see used anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
