Re: [PATCH] Artop update

[Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>]

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.