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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: umount -a
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:35:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108072035.16673.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E387230.5060002@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 17:54:56 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> At linuxfromscratch, we've just made some changes to write bootscript
> messages to /run/var.  This seems to work fine for us until shutdown where
> 
>    umaount -a
> 
> unmounts /run which is mounted as a tmpfs.  We can certainly work around
> the problem, but was wondering if this issue may also affect others.

you could make the same argument for /dev, but i dont think that gets handled 
specially either.  plus, there's the whole "will only work with recent util-
linux versions".  so it makes sense imo to have distro init code to deal with 
this regardless of anything else.
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-08  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-02 21:54 umount -a Bruce Dubbs
2011-08-08  0:35 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2011-08-08  8:54 ` Karel Zak
2011-08-08  9:15   ` Tom Gundersen

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