Re: mount options for root
Matthias Riese (mri@megatel.de)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:07:58 +0200
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:09:45 +0200, Matthias Riese <mri@megatel.de>
> said:
>
> > /*
> > * Alters the mount flags of a mounted file system. Only the mount point
> > * is used as a reference - file system type and the device are ignored.
> > * FS-specific mount options can't be altered by remounting.
> > */
>
> > static int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, char *data)
>
> > Seems to be a bad idea to change mount options this way?
>
> That comment appears to be obsolete. We pass the "data" field all the
> way from the mount syscall to the filesystem remount method, and
> ext2_remount certaily reparses it, so there should be no problem
> accepting fs-specific options in a remount.
Yes, it works now. I've mistaken true for false in ext2_remount.
The above comment was somewhat confusing, should be deleted IMHO.
Matthias Riese
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