From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 3 20:49:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA24638 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 20:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA24632 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 20:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id XAA14514; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:48:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:48:59 -0400 Message-Id: <199607040348.XAA14514@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: terry@lambert.org CC: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, tom@sdf.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, root@friday.keanesea.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <199607030621.XAA09969@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:21:09 -0700 (MST)) Subject: Re: What is the best way to setup a drive From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> But how would you mount your filesystems at boot time? > Mounts will be inserted into the fs hierarchy post-facto by > mount-point mapping of the vnodes according to the content of the > fstab. But with /etc as a symlink to something on a different filesystem, then how would the fstab be read, since the root filesystem is the only one that can be mounted before fstab is availible? I think that this point has been made and remade many times before my post made it. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped