From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:53:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:53:23 -0400 Received: from linuxpc1.lauterbach.com ([213.70.137.66]:45485 "HELO linuxpc1.lauterbach.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 31 May 2002 14:53:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Franz Sirl To: Martin Dalecki Subject: Re: [PATCH] Artop update Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:55:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl In-Reply-To: <200205311951.35809@enzo.bigblue.local> <3CF7B339.3000406@evision-ventures.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200205312055.30660@enzo.bigblue.local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.