On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Robert Elz wrote:
the sysctl is working of course). My only concern would be the amount
it adds to libc (in terms of file size) as this is something that would be
FWIW this is a patch to libutil, not libc.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Michael van Elst wrote:
ROOT= only works for your special case where you know the root
partition. An alias that represents device+partition would be more
versatile.
The whole point of this is that the device is not known. Of course the
partition layout is known, as the sam
Date:Mon, 1 Oct 2018 06:49:55 - (UTC)
From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
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| With wedges you would just reference them by name.
Yes, of course, that's better, when it is possible, but to work usefully
(as opposed to simply substituting a dkN
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 04:50:21PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
> | With wedges you would just reference them by name.
>
> Yes, of course, that's better, when it is possible, but to work usefully
> (as opposed to simply substituting a dkN device
Date:Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:59:37 +0200
From:Piotr Meyer
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| Maybe something like this will be better:
|
| NAME=@root/a/ ffs rw,log 1 1
| or even:
| NAME=@kern.root_device/
k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>I don't see the lack of the ability to specify the partition in the same was
>as nearly as big an issue - the device knows which of its partitions is
>the root,
The device doesn't know anything about it. You may chose a convention
like using the first part
an...@smutek.pl (Piotr Meyer) writes:
>In fstab(5)[1] I found something like:
> To use ``NAME'' on a non-GPT disk, use:
> NAME=sb2k5Root/a/ ffs rw,log 1 1
> NAME=sb2k5Root/bnoneswapsw,dp0 0
That's a wedge construct. Currently th
k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>Better than what is currently available, perhaps, better than what
>Jared proposed, I doubt, that's full of needless noise, just to
>essentially make something which looks like a double mapping, from
>device into fake wedge label, and then from that back to
Date:Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:52:15 - (UTC)
From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
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| The device doesn't know anything about it.
The device, obviously not, the filesystem on the device does though,
at least when it is using disklabel type partitioning,
k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
> | In every case the kernel finally selects a root partition to be mounted and
> | exactly that partition should be referenced in fstab, what is written there
> | will be remounted read-write during the boot process.
>Yes, that is what we need - but wit
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