On Friday 31 May 2002 19:30, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Franz Sirl wrote:
> > The hunk to main.c is needed to be able to boot with DEVFS enabled.
>
> Better just don't do devfs :-). But anyway...
I like it :-)
> Well I'm planing to add kernel version tagging of fstab line enties
> to util-linux. This seems to be the only way to make major/minor
> transitions (and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced
> that they will be unevitable at some not so distant point in time!)
>
> Something along the lines of:
>
> cat /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hdc / ext3 v2.4,defaults 1
> 1 /dev/sda1
> / ext3 v2.5,defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
> # /dev/loop1 /mnt/1 auto noauto,owner 0 0
> # /dev/loop2 /mnt/2 auto noauto,owner 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
>
> Would be *very* convenient for this purpose and solve 99.9999% percent
> of portability problems. Well the above syntax may be the esiest to
> imeplement however the below syntax would be perhaps more palatable:
>
> 2.5:/dev/sda1
> / ext3 ....
>
> Opinnions?
Well, the only time I would need something like that is for label/id-less
stuff, with swap being the most annyoing one for me.
> perhaps a similar adjustments would be required for the kernel root
> parameter of course.
Actually I would love to see something like root=LABEL:root_rh_on_40G on the
commandline.
Franz.
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