Re: Autoconfiguring root device and fstab(5) (wedges?)

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> > > I am not sure if this will help you, but there's a magic 
> > > string, "from_mount", which can be used in the first field of 
> > > the fstab entry
> >
> > Yep; just tested it though, and fsck complains that it can't 
> > stat ``from_mount'', reason is... obvious.
>
> Can't we move the logic from mount(8) to getfsent(3) internal?

It should be easy enough to teach fsck(8) to handle 
fs_spec="from_mount".  I am not keen on moving the logic to 
getfsent(3), because that's just a file parser, independent of 
system state.

--apb (Alan Barrett)