linux-kernel - Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

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Date:	Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:57:34 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com> writes:

> Which leads back to this slackware user, who's never used an initrd, 
> thinking about dual root partitions just to get the name change from 
> another /etc/fstab?  

I think it's unnecessary, /etc/fstab is not used while mounting root fs,
and both mount and fsck should understand labels (i.e., you can put
labels there, even for root fs).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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