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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:44:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: Why umount -A is a really bad idea
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Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> Or, perhaps, a better solution would be to implement a mount table a la
> Unix, as CGF has been advocating for years.  Any takers?

you mean /etc/mtab <=> /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab.
No, this looks like real work.

And then we would really have to create the other device drivers.
like usbdevfs, devpts, loopback, crypto, ext3, ...
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