[BusyBox] Endless corner cases...
Mike Frysinger
vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Jul 30 02:50:00 UTC 2005
On Friday 29 July 2005 10:26 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> In _theory_, you could specify a _file_ in /etc/fstab with "loop" as one of
> the options and have it automatically loopback mount at a standard location
> for normal users, or via a mount -a.
not just theory, ive done it before ;)
> Which means the fstab processing
> either has to go before the substitution of /dev/loop* for the blockDevice
> field, or the fstab code has to be aware of the difference between loopFile
> and blockDevice.
ive never looked at the mount code so i dont really see why this is a corner
case ... fstab processing rules are pretty plain and simple ... start at the
first one and service it until all of them are done ...
do you plan on trying to add support for parallel mounting (-F) ?
-mike
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