The mismatched mount mess

"Mounting" a filesystem is the act of making it available somewhere in the system's directory hierarchy. But a mount operation doesn't just glue a device full of files into a specific spot in the tree; there is a whole set of parameters controlling how that filesystem is accessed that can be specified at mount time. The handling of these mount parameters is the latest obstacle to getting the proposed new mounting API into the mainline; should the new API reproduce what is arguably one of the biggest misfeatures of the current mount() system call?

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