> After a successful mount, the NFS mount command tucks some options into > /etc/mtab that reflect which mountd was used for the mount, and what > protocol version and port was used for the mount request. Those options > are not passed to the kernel, and do not appear in /proc/mounts today. > See nfs(5)'s discussion of the mountport, mounthost, mountprog, and > mountvers options. > > However, the trend for NFS is to push mount option parsing into the > kernel. Thus all options will be passed to the kernel, and at that > point it should be able to reflect the mount* options in /proc/mounts. > But it doesn't do that quite yet.
Trond, do you have a roadmap for this? > I'm wondering if there are other such cases in other file systems. Anything that has /sbin/mount.XXX could be doing this. According to Karel, those are nfs, cifs and ocfs2. Miklos - 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/
