stop ignoring initramfs in df ?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Feb 15 21:51:04 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 14 February 2007 3:51 pm, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 14:00, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > so i started to add a df build option, "ignore initramfs mount", that 
would 
> > control the hardcoded filter in df.c for the "rootfs" mount ... idea being 
> > that in embedded/bootable systems, it is common to run right out of the 
> > initramfs rather than switching over to a "normal" root
> > 
> > however, i cant decide whether this warrants an actual build option ... 
the 
> > trade offs are that in the desktop case, you'd never want to see the 
rootfs 
> > output ... but does controlling literally 2 lines of code offset this ?
> 
> I don't know what is a rationale for hiding that. It _is_ mounted there, 
right?
> So why we are lying to user that it isn't there?
> 
> In my opinion we should just remove this feature.

P.S.

http://landley.net/notes-2006.html#28-10-2006
and
http://landley.net/notes-2006.html#29-10-2006

Rob
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