[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#669165: mount errors when attempting remount of /run, /proc and /sys

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:47:34PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Misc errors are displayed during boot because initscripts attempts
> to remount /run, /proc and /sys.  However, on GNU/kFreeBSD it's not
> possible to remount tmpfs, linprocfs or linsysfs file systems:
> 
> mount: /run: unknown special file or file system
> mount: proc : Operation not supported
> mount: sys : Operation not supported

Is it possible to know ahead of time which filesystems do not
support remounting?  Ideally we would support this generically in
the domount function.  A patch for /lib/init/mount-functions.sh
which either skipped the remount or set the output to stderr
would be appreciated.


Regards,
Roger

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