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

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:37:50 -0800
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20041205044145.A18185_at_mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson writes:
> 
>>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 '/'.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure, and I don't really care much.  The order in which the
> kernel tries various root filesystems is not affected apart from me
> removing the "ask" mode which is badly implemented, prone to problems
> and unecessary now that we can set it in the loader.

Where it's not documented well enough to use in an emergency, while
the "ask" mode had a good example right there in front of you..

saved my bacon several times.

> 
Received on Mon Dec 06 2004 - 05:38:00 UTC

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