Default mount options from superblock for ext2/3 filesystems
This patch adds support for default mount options to be stored in the superblock, so they don't have to be specified on the mount command line (or in /etc/fstab). While I was in the code, I also cleaned up the handling of how mount options are processed in the ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Most mount options are now processed *after* the superblock has been read in. This allows for a much cleaner handling of those default mount option parameters that were already stored in the superblock: the resuid, resgid, and s_errors fields were handled using some fairly gross special cases. Now the only mount option which is processed first is the sb option, which specifies the location of the superblock. This allows the handling of all of the default mount parameters to be much more cleanly and more generally handled. This does change the behaviour from earlier kernels, in that if the sb mount option is specified, it must be specified *first*. However, this option is rarely used, and if it is, it generally is specified first, so this seems to be a reasonable restriction.
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