Hi, Thinking twice about this bug[1]: do we need a /etc/fstab file at all? For now, it is only used for:
- 1: knowing which partition to use as swap, - 2: knowing which fs need checking (this was the purpose of the bug), - and not for 3: knowing what to mount where. 1 could probably be set another more translator-like way. And there is a duplicate here: 2 and 3 are usually the same information. I'd rather see /etc/fstab just got ridden of, and e2fsck run by /hurd/ext2fs itself upon startup (if necessary). Some advantage of this would be for instance to let the machine boot and administrator login while /home is still being checked [imagine more examples here]... The fs could even be already mounted r/o while being checked (and ext2fs restarted if e2fsck made really big changes (nice equivalent to "please reboot" message on linux boxes)). What do people think about this? Regards, Samuel [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/144545 _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
