Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>
> Just a thought...
>
> For filesystem-specific mount options we already have the *data parameter,
> which is parsed by the filesystems. IMHO all the options that are now
> passed in flags could as well be passed in *data. Parsing them in the VFS
> isn't that hard (all options recognized by the VFS could be
> processed first, leaving the rest for the filesystems).
>
> Flags could be interpreted as it is now for compatibility. The same
> flags could alternatively be passed in *data, so flags could be
> avoided in the future. We would still stay compatible at the syscall
> level.
>
> We will probably get additional VFS-level mount options for things like
> filesystem Capabilities and ACLs (and whatever else). There's not enough
> space left for many extensions like that, so passing them in *data seems
> better to me anyway.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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This sounds very reasonable to me.
Hans
