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
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