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

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

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> We can't move the logic from mount(8) to anywhere because 
> fsck(8) needs to work when a filesystem is not mounted, and 
> mount(8) uses getmntinfo(3) to determine the "from_mount" 
> values.

The only time people are likely to expect "from_mount" to work 
with fsck(8) is when the root file system is mounted read-only, 
and you want to fsck it before re-mounting it as read-write.  Does 
getmntinfo(3) work in this case?  (I assumed it would, but 
haven't tested.)

--apb (Alan Barrett)