Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 04:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW]: rootfs mounting code rework Message-ID: <20041205044145.A18185@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <56325.1102236241@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <56325.1102236241@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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". I believe he's referring to the case where you load a kernel from somewhere other than the default '/'. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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