Mounting partitions

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Alex Smith:
> initctl set checked-filesystems "$checked-filesystems $BLOCKDEV"
> 
Umm, that would cause a race condition if ever two file systems did that
operation at the same time.

You'll want to use an "append" operation for this kind of thing.
Or, even better, a list-style variable you can add and remove things
to/from.

> Wrt. working out prerequisite mounts, it would probably be nice to 
> integrate that functionality into getmntent, so rather than having that 
> loop, you could do something like
> 
> getmntent --prerequisites /home
> 
That makes sense.

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