Mount Question/Request

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 5:04 pm, Jason Schoon wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Have you considered adding label support to mount at some point in the
> future?  It just so happens that I recently started a project where I
> will need to use ext labels to mount, rather than device names (I
> would use udev, but my /dev directory is in a read-only partition).

As a CONFIG option, sure.

> I thought I was going about it all wrong, until I realized that
> Busybox mount doesn't have support for specifying labels.  I may
> investigate adding it, but I didn't want to start if it was on a mount
> TODO list of yours.

It's not something I planned to get to in the next three months.  I have a 
number of higher priority items queued up first, I'm taking some time off 
from the eternal battle with mount.c. :)

If this is your itch, I look forward to a patch...

Rob
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