On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are these deprecated or now handled in the initscripts? We mount them as part of initscripts. However, if you have entries in fstab, those take precedence (at least for the time being). > I've always wondered > why /proc, /sys, etc can't be in fstab too just so everything is clear, There would be no upside, as we already know that these things need to be mounted, and what mount options they should have. The downside is that if we make it configurable it becomes an extra burden on the user to update them in case the options need to be changed (as happens from time to time), and there is a great probability that many people end up with the "wrong" options and various programs that rely on things being mounted correctly will break. > so > I'm wondering if there's just a trend to move system type mounts from fstab > to initscripts. Correct. The rationale being: if we know what to do, we'll do it unconditionally in initscripts, if we don't know what to do it must be configured by the user in fstab. -t
