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Re: ntsec a mount option?


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:41:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 14 16:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Jul 14 16:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> >Out of curiosity, how do you imagine that should look like in /etc/fstab?
>> >> 
>> >> Like a proc filesystem on linux except maybe it would be called
>> >> 'cygdrive' or 'drive' or 'msdos-drive'.
>> >
>> >Isn't that what we have right now?
>> >
>> >  none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0
>> >
>> >What would be different?
>> 
>> It's not an actual mount option like "mount -t cygdrive cygdrive
>> /cygdrive".  I wish I'd implemented like that from the beginning.
>
>In the fstab file it's already the fs_vfstype field.  Unfortunately
>`mount -t cygdrive' suffers from -t being used for textmode mounts.

Maybe we should repurpose that option for 1.7.

(along with text-mode mounts?)

cgf


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