On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 03:59:27PM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > Split this off from previous note (different subject, though > forgot to change previous subject line fully! *arg*). > > > As another matter of being user friendly, why can't specify a defaults > line for all mounts with the option of per-type defaults taking precedence: > > default * defaults defaults,x-'"mostly for completeness"' > default xfs defaults logbsize=256k,largeio,nodiratime > /dev/sdf xfs defaults su=64k,sw=256k > ... > ------------- > > fs-type specific mounts would be applied after global > defaults, and in the 3rd line, what I am trying Well, the problem is that fstab is de-facto standard. If you want to change semantic than you have to fix all programs that follow fstab setting. The file is no private mount(8) config file. The old idea is to use per-filesystem config files where you can specify default mount options. We use this concept for NFS. But again, such setting is invisible for many utils etc. IMHO the best is the extN way. It means to store the default setting to filesystem superblock, see # tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep 'Default mount options' Default mount options: user_xattr acl Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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
