Re: -CURRENT does not recognize standard mount options

Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:30:07PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>>Should its kernel backend not support all of those options as well?  Or
>>perhaps global_opts in vfs_mount.c should be updated to support all
> 
> 
> Can you try this patch?  I'm not sure if "force" and "sync"
> should be global_opts or not because I don't know

They are no more global than the ACL or multilabel options, not
to mentiont he NFS-specific options.

> if they make sense for every FS, but for symmetry with what was
> in mount_msdosfs before, we can push them into the filesystem code for msdosfs.
> These inconsistencies between the various mount programs and
> the various filesystem code is why I've been trying to push
> towards using a single mount binary, and pushing the mount option
> parsing into vfs_mount.c and the code for the specific filesystem.
> We are not quite there yet, but we are a lot closer.
> 

Thanks for doing the un-fun job of unwinding all of this.

Scott