[TEST/REVIEW]: rootfs mounting code rework

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Dec 5 00:44:04 PST 2004


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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