On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:46:10 +0300, "Vladimir Dronnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Personally, I'd like to be able to mount valid stuff the way I wish. >> >> For a manual mount, I agree. >> But I think 'mount -a' should mount everything from /etc/fstab, unless >> it is already mounted. > > > I fear mount -a is used 99% at early bootup when nothing is mounted. But > still we are going to create a potential rathole here when mount becomes > _stateful_ utility. Do we need more quirks, Ralf?
It's not a quirk, it's needed :) BSD man pages state that -a will ignore entries that already appear to be mounted. core. Although the linux man pages don't state this, the behavior of GNU mount from util-linux is the same. Why is it needed? Well, consider that many boot programs examine /proc for a multitude on how the initial boot should be done. So the subsequent mount -a in the boot scripts needs to avoid re-mounting /proc as it's already mounted. Thanks Roy _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
