linux-kernel - Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

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Message-Id: <20080116160930.28168da3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:09:30 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 17 2008 00:43, Karel Zak wrote:
> >> 
> >> Seems like a plain bad idea to me.  There will be any number of home-made
> >> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
> >
> > So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2  ;-)
> 
> Was not it like "don't use /proc for new things"?

Well yeah.  If we're going to do a brand new mechanism to expose
per-mount data then we should hunker down and get it right.
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