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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:41:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Contemplating drastic change to mount handling
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:58:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> /etc/fstab would be the same as it is on linux.  /etc/mtab would be a
> >> binary (trie) representation of the mount table which could be mapped
> >> into cygwin on the fly, eliminating the need to parse any options.
> >>
> >> So, basically the "permanent" mounts would be whatever existed in
> >> /etc/fstab, maybe with an auto field turned on.
> >
> >And getting rid of user mounts... :-)
>
> I don't know if we can go that far.  I think that some people still
> need them.
> cgf

/proc/mounts might be a good location for the trie, to mimic Linux usage.
Then /etc/mtab can store all mounts as text (the info that's currently in
the registry), and /etc/fstab would only have permanent mounts (currently
system?).
	Igor
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