Bryan Kadzban wrote: > bt wrote: >> 3. Also from the Arch Wiki, regarding when an initramfs is not being >> used. Most of the points are in the LFS book or Bruce's hint, but I >> couldn't find mention of support for AUTOFS4_FS or TMPFS (different >> from DEVTMPFS_MOUNT, which is mentioned). Should these be mentioned? > > Hmm, yeah, TMPFS is needed for /run. (Though since /run gets mounted by > the bootscripts, it can be a module.)
TMPFS is set automatically if the user does 'make defconfig'. I don't know why it would be unset unless the user specifically unsets it. > What's AUTOFS4_FS used for? I don't *think* we specifically create any > config that needs it, but I have to admit I haven't been paying terribly > close attention to some of the recent fstab (and bootscript) changes. > > Digging around Google, it *appears* to be the NFS automounter? Why on > earth would Arch require that? :-) We mention that in BLFS autofs, but in a slightly different way. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
