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From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
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Subject: Re: What is the best way to setup a driver
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:42:31 +1000 (EST)
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> All file systems will have mount point vnode assignments as a result
> of a callback as a result of device probe.
> 
> This means all mount structure will be filled out.
> 
> What will not be filled out is the hierarchy assignment, including
> covered vnodes.  This is what is filled out by /etc/fstab, if we
> don't choose to make fstab "go away" entirely.
> 
> The root file system is identifiable by a preinitialized "last mounted
> on" field.  This field, and additional metadata from a file on the
> file system itself (it works for quotas, after all), or from an
> extended superblock, can be used to encode all necessary mount
> options.
> 
> The "/etc" directory is not allowed to be other than on the root file
> system, by definition.  That resolves the symlink problem.

This is not clear to me. Can you explain in more detail how this resolves
the problem?

-- 
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