Re: autofs vs. Sun automount -- new fs proposal

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
15 Dec 1998 13:32:48 -0500


>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> writes:
> 1) the sledgehammer approach, which doesn't affect the VFS
> 2) the clean approach which requires VFS changes.

Having no idea what this option 2 would look like (though the little bit
of understanding I have leads me to believe that option 2 deserves the
mention `efficient' rather than `clean' (changing the VFS in order to provide
another filesystem hardly sounds `clean' to me)), I have a question:

With option 1, I'm pretty sure it's not hard to provide varying mount options,
of which `ro' would be the most useful (I like to use for the same reason that
I like to make some of my files read-only (it doesn't prevent me from modifying
them, but it forces me to take extra steps to do it)). How about option 2 ?
I understand that providing read-only LoFS mounts is low priority enough
that if it's not trivial it won't be done, hence my question.

Stefan

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