On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
> 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).
i'd agree quite strongly with you here Karel
-mike
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