Alexander Viro writes:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Alan Cox writes:
> > > To Do But Non Showstopper
> > > -------------------------
> > > Devfs compiled in but not mounted causes crap for ->mnt_devname of
> > > root (Al Viro)
> >
> > Details please?
>
> compile devfs in, but don't mount it. Now cat /proc/mounts - mnt_devname
> for root is calculated by devfs code anyway and
> a) doesn't look like an old special case (/dev/root*)
> b) doesn't correspond to any device name, since devfs is not
> mounted.
> Confuses the heck of some rc scripts...
Hm. That's a tricky one. Simply adding a test for whether devfs is to
be mounted at boot isn't a good solution, especially if mounting at
boot becomes less common (because of the persistence saving&restoring
scheme I came up with).
I think all we can really do is shrug and say it's a user-space
problem. I note that on Debian 2.2 (non-devfs kernel), /dev/root
doesn't even exist, and this doesn't seem to cause any problems.
It looks like the entry for / in /proc/mounts can't be relied on
anyway, so I don't see the need for hacking in some solution for
devfs.
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 21:00:30 EST