Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

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amon schreef op 10-10-2016 15:53:
> Since the topic seems to be mounting of devices from user space...
> 
> 1) You can use sshfs to mount pretty much any directory,
>    anywhere to which you have password access on any mount
>    point for which you have privs. I used to use it a lot.
>    Works great.

I read a post from 2005 that said the old smbmount did it as well, if 
you made the smbmnt program suid.

Personally I think it is too "light weight" in a certain sense although 
I think I once imagined a use case for myself.

Apparently suid mounting on user directories is nothing new. Someone on 
that page (lwn.net) said "Whether that is a bug or a feature is an 
exercise for the reader".

> 
> 2) I would love a feature in which I could add a blkid to
>    fstab such that if I plug that particular USB or other
>    storage device into my machine, that instead of mounting
>    in /media/user/diskname, it would mount just like any other
>    disk would at boot time.

I do this all the time. All of my usb disks mount in specific locations. 
They are set to auto and nofail.

>    I haven't seen a way to do this,
>    although I believe old automounters were fine with such.
>    defaults, auto won't do it because it will hang you up
>    waiting at boot time (well, you can set other options to
>    prevent the hang, but its not really what I'd like to see.

Hmm... you speak of systemd probably. I do not know what other concerns 
you have.