[Bug 1260368] Re: If there's no rootfs entry in /etc/fstab, mountall never completes

[Steve Langasek]

Given that there's already an entry in /lib/init/fstab for the root
filesystem which is meant to be shadowed by whatever shows up in
/etc/fstab, I agree.

There's lots of special-casing of the root filesystem in mountall, since
it needs to be fscked before remounting rw, has a magic name in
/proc/mounts, etc.  So it's reasonable to fix this, but probably
requires a bit of digging.

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  If there's no rootfs entry in /etc/fstab, mountall never completes

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  So, if there's no rootfs entry in fstab (or, in my case, nothing in
  fstab at all), mountall never gets around to remounting / read-write,
  never exits, and one's boot hangs there, patiently waiting for an
  event that will never be emitted.

  Given that this appears to be literally the only thing an
  upstart/mountall system *needs* fstab for, I consider it a misfeature
  and/or flat-out bug that I had to add a root entry to fstab just for
  this.

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