Re: Semantics of remount

From: Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 09:22:35 EST

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On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What are the intended semantics for a remount:
>
> (a) equivalent to a mount, resetting all mount options that
> might be set
> (b) change mount options relative to the current mount Aoptions
>
> For ext2, the 2.2.17 kernel implements (a),
> while 2.4.0-test8 implements (b).

I don't believe there are any standards documents which tell us what
to do. (b) seems more intuitive than (a).

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