Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:14:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:14:09 -0500 Received: from wire.cadcamlab.org ([156.26.20.181]:23817 "EHLO wire.cadcamlab.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:13:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:13:46 -0600 To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Rob Landley , Nicolas Pitre , lkml , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available Message-ID: <20020116071346.GD2067@cadcamlab.org> In-Reply-To: <20020116034137.CRFB26021.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> <20020115224821.A4658@thyrsus.com> <20020116062942.GC2067@cadcamlab.org> <20020116013250.A3880@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020116013250.A3880@thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i From: Peter Samuelson Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Forgot this point earlier.. [esr] > > > The version I just released does exactly that. Well, not exactly; it > > > actually looks at fstab -- /proc/mounts gives you '/dev/root' rather > > > than a physical device name in the root entry. IMHO you should still use /proc/mounts to determine the root filesystem type. In my fstab file I don't mention ext3 anywhere - I use 'auto' as fs type instead. That way my ext3 partitions will mount correctly when I boot a non-ext3-capable kernel. (They mount as ext2 in that case.) Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/