From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is e2initrd_helper?
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:55:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F85A965.3040008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F85A740.9080906@ubuntu.com>
On 4/11/12 10:46 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I came across this program in e2fsprogs and it doesn't seem to have a
> man page. What is its purpose? Looking at the code, it appears to
> extract the fs type listed in the /etc/fstab of the root fs before it
> is mounted, but why?
+2004-09-18 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+ * e2initrd_helper.c: New program which allows initrd scripts to
+ check on the contents of /etc/fstab without (a) needing to
+ mount the root filesystem, and (b) needing /bin/awk in the
+ initrd environment. (Addresses Debian Bug #247775)
+
Other than that, I dunno, but Ted might. :)
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 15:46 What is e2initrd_helper? Phillip Susi
2012-04-11 15:55 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-04-11 18:27 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 22:19 ` Phillip Susi
2012-04-11 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
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