linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/7] vfs: mountinfo: add /proc/<pid>/mountinfo

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Message-ID: <20080326224455.GV10722@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:44:55 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/7] vfs: mountinfo: add /proc/<pid>/mountinfo

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:11:37PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> +This file contains lines of the form:
> +
> +36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime rw master:1 - ext3 /dev/root,errors=continue
> +(1)(2)(3)   (4)   (5)      (6)    (7)  (8)   (9) (10)   (11)      (12)
> +
> +(1) mount ID:  unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
> +(2) parent ID:  ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
> +(3) major:minor:  value of st_dev for files on filesystem
> +(4) root:  root of the mount within the filesystem
> +(5) mount point:  mount point relative to the process's root
> +(6) mount options:  per mount options

> +(7) super options:  filesystem type independent, per super block options

Move that one past fs type, please.

> +(8) optional fields:  zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
> +(9) separator:  marks the end of the optional fields
> +(10) filesystem type:  name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
> +(11) mount source:  filesystem specific information or "none"

I'm not even sure that we *want* "none" here, to be honest, but that's
a separate story...
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