[ILUG] "mount -O" on rh73.... standard?

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:27:16PM +0000, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
>    Is this -O option to mount a red-hattism?  I build util-linux (11n) and the
> boot sequence blew up, and I discovered this -O option used in the startup
> scripts, also documented in the man page (though not described as a Red Hat
> extension), but not supported by the version I had just built from source.

if i was really curious about this, i'd download the src rpm, install it,
and look for patches.  since rpm is designed to have "pristine sources"
you should easily see if redhat applied a patch.  the few packages i've
looked at had well named patch files, so it should be easy to spot if
one of the patches provides this functionality.

but i'm not curious so i'll leave you to it.  :)

kevin

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