Contemplating drastic change to mount handling

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:09:58PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> Basically, I'd like to eliminate most of the registry and move mount
> handling into two files: /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.

Nice.

> /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.

Sorry, what are "tries"?

> We'd still use the registry as a method for finding /etc but that would
> be it.

Finding "/" basically?

> 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... :-)

Corinna

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