[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Some more proposed initscript rejigging

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:
> * Rename mountvirtfs -> mountvirt.sh
> * Rename mountdevsubfs -> mountdevsub.sh

Is there a reason to have them separate?

> * Change the "domount" function so that mtab is never updated; hence
> mountvirt.sh and mountdevsub.sh won't update mtab

This can only be done if we are 100% sure we can recover all of that
information later.  I'd rather have an early mounted writeable filesystem
and place mtab there.

> (I am assuming here that the only reason why mountvirtfs is run a second time at
> S36 is to do the mtab initialization and updating.  This task will be transferred
> to mountnfs-mtab.sh.)

It appears to be so.  After all, we do NOT support remote-mounted separate
/etc or /dev...

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh