On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:27:00 AM Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi Kel and other sysvinit developers, > > I've attached a further update for your consideration, which fixes a > few issues. If it's OK with you, this could be uploaded to > experimental (with your changes folded into the same version in the > changelog) as 2.88dsf-13.5. Unless you'd prefer to do a maintainer > upload. > > The logic used for mounting filesystems is duplicated entirely between > the various scripts doing mounting, and the mtab script used to > generate the initial mtab. This includes the domtab() function, which > is almost entirely identical to domount() with the use of -f with mount. > This patch removes the duplication, and uses the same codepaths for > both mounting and mtab generation, which will make the scripts much > more robust when making any changes.
Great improvement. > > The reason for doing this was principally to allow for /remounting/ of > already mounted filesystems so that filesystems mounted in the > initramfs and subsequently moved onto the rootfs could be made to > use the mount options specified in /etc/fstab (and /etc/default/tmpfs, > where applicable). This means that all filesystems mounted by the > initramfs are entirely user-configurable, so mount options and policies > are not hardcoded in the initramfs. I also added remount/reload > argument support to mountkernfs/mountdevsubfs which means you can edit > /etc/defaults/* and/or /etc/fstab and then reload to make those changes > active. > > Other than that, we create relative rather than absolute symlinks, and > I've made the error checking and other parts of the scripts more > robust. > > Other than these changes, I'm not aware of anything outstanding in > initscripts needing changes to support /run. The symlinks neeed > making relative, and while I did the mount changes to allow for a > clean handover from the initramfs-mounted /run to the real system > so our configuration would still get applied, this is a general > change which applies to all initramfs-mounted filesystems via > creation of a suitable entry in /etc/fstab. In my opnion: do not hesitate to upload this to experimental and continue the improvement of the transition to /run. Have you any comment about #623174 and #623076 ? Thanks, Kel. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
