On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:28:18PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > The above mount makes a feeble attempt to record these flags > > > in /etc/mtab, but will fail in any nontrivial situation.] > > > > I don't think that mtab is a good place for this shared subtree > > stuff. The mtab needs to die. > > Perhaps. Perhaps not. > > On the one hand I think there is a place for arbitrary user-space info > about mounted filesystems. With information about who mounted, and at what > time. > What the icon is that should represent this filesystem. What resources are > associated to this mount, and which program must do the cleanup. Etc. > Today there is not much user-space info, but there is some.
See also the "[RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab" thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.html#00208 Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
