On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 06:04:24PM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> One typical, wrongly edited fstab example is:
>
> /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /usr ext3 defaults 0 0
>
> The events:
>
> mount -> /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g ->
> -> resolves to <path1>/ntfs-3g via a symlink ->
> -> ntfs-3g requires at least <path2>/libfuse*
>
> If <path1> and <path2> aren't mounted yet (almost always under /usr or
> /usr/local) then ntfs-3g mount fails.
>
> There are many potential solutions. For example installing everything on
> the root file system which may be needed for successful mount. But this
> is not always feasible or practical since we could end up putting almost
> everything on the root file system in the end.
>
> Another idea is an improved mount strategy:
>
> do {
> try to mount all unmounted entries
> } while (not all mounted && at least one new was successfully mounted)
>
> This would take care about the dependencies and mount as many file systems
> as possible.
>
> What do you think?
Frankly, I'm not a big fan of this kind of changes. I don't think
that we have to keep Linux users stupid and uneducated.
Well, I'll add this request to the TODO file for the next release
(2.14).
Thanks,
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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