>mount() is not a documented syscall.  The binary formats for filesystems
>like NFS are only documented inside the kernels to which they apply.

What  _is_ a documented system call?  Linux is famous for not having 
documented interfaces (or, put another way, not distinguishing between an 
interface you can read in an official document and one you discover by 
reading kernel source code).  But of all interfaces in Linux, the system 
call interface is probably the most accepted as one a user of the kernel 
can rely on.

I don't think a filesystem driver designer should expect mount options to 
be private to one particular user space program.  Especially one that 
isn't even packaged with the driver.

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Bryan Henderson                          IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA                              Filesystems
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