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Re: Contemplating drastic change to mount handling
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:58:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: Contemplating drastic change to mount handling
- References: <20020906030958.GA27496@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:09:58PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> Basically, I'd like to eliminate most of the registry and move mount
> handling into two files: /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.
Nice.
> /etc/fstab would be the same as it is on linux. /etc/mtab would be a
> binary (trie) representation of the mount table which could be mapped
> into cygwin on the fly, eliminating the need to parse any options.
Sorry, what are "tries"?
> We'd still use the registry as a method for finding /etc but that would
> be it.
Finding "/" basically?
> So, basically the "permanent" mounts would be whatever existed in
> /etc/fstab, maybe with an auto field turned on.
And getting rid of user mounts... :-)
Corinna
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