Re: [TEST/REVIEW]: rootfs mounting code rework

From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson_at_chesapeake.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 04:42:21 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <p0620073ebdd844240e34_at_[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 '/'.

>
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