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diff --git a/mount/README.mount b/mount/README.mount index 9bea2dc2e..2a8fae1c1 100644 --- a/mount/README.mount +++ b/mount/README.mount @@ -1,147 +1,10 @@ -mount/umount for Linux 0.99.14 -============================== +mount/umount for Linux 0.97.3 and later. +Authors: +Doug Quale <quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu>, +H.J. Lu <hlu@eecs.wsu.edu>, +Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>, +Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>. -Enhance nfsmount.c to allow the program number or port number -to be specified for both the mount daemon and the nfs daemon. -Also anticipate tcp and namelen support. +Presently maintained by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>. +Ftp site: ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/util . -Rewrite canonicalize in terms of realpath. Don't be obsessive about -the path pre-existing for nfs, ifs, none, etc. - -Fix memory overwriting bug in the new remount code. - -Fix mtab handling in the new remount code so entries appear -exactly once and in their proper mounting order. - -Fix defaults, remount and noauto so these options don't appear in the mtab. - -Repair extra options handling that got damaged with the remount code. - -Handle combining -o from the command line with options specified -in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. - -Fix completely broken file-locking. - -Beautify the options field so it contains no duplicates or redundancies. - -Added long-style options to all programs. - -Added version and help options to all programs. - -Brought the Makefile up to GNU standards regarding CFLAGS and LDLFLAGS. - -Added support for the `user' option where mount and umount run suid to root. - -Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> - -mount/umount for Linux 0.99.10 -============================== - -[Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>] - -A number of changes introduced to cater for new kernel facilities. -mount can now remount an already-mounted filesystem, and umount -attempts to unmount even root filesystems. Supercedes the [u]mount -previously available in the bootutils-0.1 collection. - -Fixed a minor bug in canonicalise(). - -mount/umount/swapon/swapoff(8) for Linux 0.99.6 -=============================================== - -Here is a minor update to the previous version that fixes -a longstanding "off by one" bug in parsing fs-specific -options. No other real changes. - -mount/umount/swapon/swapoff(8) for Linux 0.99.2 -=============================================== - -Here is a new version of Doug Quale's mount/umount package that -includes support for mounting and unmount NFS filesystems. It is -still possible to compile it without NFS support by modifying the -Makefile. Even if you don't have rpcgen, but do have libc-4.2 -you can "cp -p" the pre-generated files in the rpcsvc directory -into the mount source directory. - -The primary difference besides the actual NFS mounting code is that -mount understands hostname:/path syntax for the "device" as well as -the new keyword "none" which is useful for the proc filesystem. Also, -umount had to be trained to specify the mount-point instead of the -device when unmounting such filesystems. For compatibility, -filesystems with true devices are unmounted using their device name -which will still work with older kernels. However, all umounts could -just as well be done by specifying the mount point instead of the -device. - -Other changes since the beta NFS mount are: - -* incorportated H.J. Lu's changes for mtab permissions and errno handling -* corrected the error message for unhandled errors from mount and umount -* improved (a little :-) the reporting of handled mount and umount errors -* added the ability to NFS mount from a IP address as well as a hostname -* added a string error message instead of numeric for failed NFS mounts -* changed 32 to _NSIG when setting all signals (should be using sigismember) -* eliminated the obsolete HAVE_MOUNT5 and HAVE_SWAPOFF ifdefs -* added support for the sync and async mount options -* added the noauto option for fstab entries that shouldn't get mounted with -a -* changed mount -a to check the mtab for already mounted filesystems -* eliminated a few new warning messages from gcc 2.3.3 -* wrote an nfs man page - -Features still missing: - -* ability to background NFS mounts that have timed out -* notify the NFS server of umounts (but addr=ip-addr support is in there) -* add the possibility of interrupting an in-progress mount -* man pages for the other Linux filesystem types - -Rick Sladkey -jrs@world.std.com -=============================================== -mount/umount/swapon/swapoff(8) for Linux 0.98.5 -=============================================== - -This version fixed the umask of root. fchmod () is called -before close /etc/mtab. This version should work with -0.97.3 or above, although I only tested it under 0.98.5. -I also fixed the error report. - -H.J. Lu -hlu@eecs.wsu.edu -11/25/92 -=============================================== -mount/umount/swapon/swapoff(8) for Linux 0.97.3 -=============================================== - -The most significant improvement over the first release is the repair of -at least a half dozen really dumb bugs, mostly involving null pointers. -These bugs caused frequent core dumps and really made the code unusable. - -Some race conditions in the lock handling code have been removed. - -Swapoff is available for 0.97.3 and later kernels. - -Swapon supports multiple swap files. In particular, swapon -a will try -to enable swapping on all the swap entries in /etc/fstab. - -File system specific mount options are now supported. This is of particular -utility with Werner Almesberger's msdos fs. - -Umount -a now reads /etc/mtab instead of /etc/fstab (thanks to David -Engel for a valuable discussion on this and other points). In addition, -it umounts the entries in reverse order, ensuring that it tries to umount -/usr/spool before /usr, for instance. - -Mount will now print mtab for ordinary users as well as for the superuser. -Several people pointed out this deficiency, and it was a real no-brainer -that broke it in the first release. - -Thanks to Linus, for another great release. 0.97.3 compiled the first time -out and is working flawlessly. Thanks also to Ross Biro, for his work on -Linux TCP/IP which has made it much easier to get this little thing off my -machine. Special thanks to everyone who put up with my bugs. - -Brickbats etc. to - -Doug Quale -quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu |