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Subject: Re: [webmin-devel] Adding some cheks to the Mount module
From: "Jamie Cameron" <jcameron () webmin ! com>
Date: 2005-02-02 0:51:18
Message-ID: 1107305478.30190 () fudu ! home
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Hi Fred,
Those all sound like good features to me, and I would be glad to accept a patch
to implement them. The last one may not be do-able though, as I don't know of
any way of determining where a remote host is mounted it's filesystems from ..
- Jamie
Jolly Frederic wrote ..
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if it could be useful (and possible) to add in the Mount
> module
> some checks to help the sysadmin, when mounting and unmountiong an NFS
> filesystem.
> This checks would display a warning to the user, to let him choose either
> to
> continue or modify his choices.
>
> I was thinking to add the following checks:
> - when mounting a filesystem, detect if the local directory is not empty
> or is
> a previous mount. This, to prevent the local directory from being masked.
> - when unmounting a filesystem, display a list of the local users who are
> using this filesystem
> - sort /etc/fstab, so parent directories are mounted before subdirectories
> (to
> prevent conflicts)
> - when mounting a filesystem, detect if the directory on the remote host
> is
> not already a filesystem mounted from another host (but how is it possible?)
> This could be very useful in big networks to prevent mounting mounts.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Fred.
>
>
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