Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:33:29 -0400 | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: Adding subroot information to /proc/mounts, or obtaining that through other means |
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Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:57:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> ... or, alternatively, add a subfield to the first field (which would >> entail escaping whatever separator we choose): >> >> /dev/md6 /export ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 >> /dev/md6:/users/foo /home/foo ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 >> /dev/md6:/users/bar /home/bar ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 > > Hell, no. The first field is in principle impossible to parse unless > you know the fs type. > > How about making a new file with sane format? From the very > beginning. E.g. mountpoint + ID + relative path + type + options, > where ID uniquely identifies superblock (e.g. numeric st_dev) > and backing device (if any) is sitting among the options...
To support NFS client performance statistics, I recently added /proc/self/mountstats. That might be a place to add details about --move and --bind mounts without changing the format of /proc/mounts. begin:vcard fn:Chuck Lever n:Lever;Chuck org:Oracle Corporation;Corporate Architecture: Linux Projects Group adr:;;1015 Granger Avenue;Ann Arbor;MI;48104;USA title:Principal Member of Staff tel;work:+1 248 614 5091 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://oss.oracle.com/~cel/ version:2.1 end:vcard
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