[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#418445: initscripts: please mount debugfs on boot

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bas Zoetekouw]
> No that's mostly right I guess.  It's still a generic interface
> though.

OK.

> Putting it in fstab works fine in principle.  Still, I would find
> that a less optimal solution than just mounting it by default.

Right.

> Would it really complicate the initscript so much to just mount an
> extra fs?

Not as such, but it is not the only request for special file system
handling we get.  We already have nfs, gpfs, gfs, sys, devfs, tmpfs,
devpts, proc, usbfs, etc, and the list just go on and on.  Because of
this, I believe we should only add the file systems required on all
installations.  So I would rather reduce complexity and reduce the
amount of special handling in the scripts used on all installations,
and move it or keep it in separate packages.

So for now, I say this feature should go into a package using it, or
if there are several packages using it, one package these package
maintainers can agree on to share the functionallity, and not into the
initscripts package.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen