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Date:      Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:44:01 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW]: rootfs mounting code rework 
Message-ID:  <56325.1102236241@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:13:27 EST." <p0620073ebdd844240e34@[128.113.24.47]> 

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In message <p0620073ebdd844240e34@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes:
>At 11:08 AM +0100 12/4/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/rootfs.patch
>>
>>Please test and review.
>
>Hmm.  Does this mean that we'll always get the correct partition
>for '/', even if /etc/fstab is wrong for '/'?  By "correct", I
>mean "the partition that the kernel was loaded from".

The loader reads /etc/fstab and picks the entry for '/' out of it
so I can only pressume that whoever did that disagree with your
notion of "correct".

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