Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:09:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Which automatically means "no sysfs".  We are NOT converting vfsmounts
to kobject-based lifetime rules.
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