On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 05:19:59PM +0000, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:22:33AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > x-mount.mkdir[=mode]
> >
> > Allow to make a target directory (mountpoint). The
> > optional argument mode specifies the filesystem access mode
> > used for mkdir(2) in octal notation. The default mode is
> > 0755. This functionality is supported only for root users.
> >
> >
> > ... so:
> >
> > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/foo -o x-mount.mkdir
> >
>
> Thank you for responding.
> I read about that some time after I sent the email; now comes the question
> of whether Busybox will accept it.
>
> I've already gotten a comment to the effect that x-mount.mkdir is "ugly"
Well, x-* prefixes are generic solution for userspace mount options,
we already use it for more things (for example systemd).
> (no clarifications provided), and that it's lacking the ability to set
> owner/group for the mountpoint.
Good point, it would be possible to extend it for example to
x-mount.mkdir[=mode:user:group]
where :user and :group are optional and may be specified by UID/GID
or by username/groupname.
> (The individual who opposes this is arguing in favor of adding a similar
> but more expanded capability to mdev, the Busybox hotplugger.)
I have no clue about busybox hotplugger, for standard udev we
usually don't want to do things like "mount" in udev context.
Karel
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