Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:10:03 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@inf.bme.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmount system call
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:59:27PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > While I like the idea of fmount I think we should use the chance to untangle
> > the mess the other mount paramters are.
> 
> OK.  Do you have a suggestion for a better interface?

 - untangle the flags mess.  --bind or --move are really different operations
   than the normal mount.  separate vfs flags from filesystem flags.

maybe Al has some more ideas, but this seems to be the most important issues.

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