Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 2 May 1996 13:41:06 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: ext2: bug or feature |
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Jon Lewis:
: While we're bashing mount, how about having mount complain about and then : ignore invalid/unsupported mount options? Booting a kernel without quota : support on a box that normally has quota, mount won't mount any partition : that has quota options...at least not on my old systems:
: (u)mount: version from util-linux-1.10
1. Your mount is ancient and broken. 2. Maybe you do not really understand the function of the program mount. Roughly speaking, it is just a wrapper around the system call mount(). It does not interpret the mount options itself - has no built-in knowledge of the ideosyncrasies of the mount options for all kinds of filesystems. And that is just as well, since these vary quite a lot in time.
You give a mount command - mount tells the kernel - the kernel doesn't like your command - mount reports the kernel's opinion to you.
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