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- From: david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)
- Subject: Re: How to use loopback mount on 4.1.2?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.182454.20004@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
- References: <aegl.712339982@ossi.com> <aegl.712343227@ossi.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:24:54 GMT
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- In article <aegl.712343227@ossi.com> aegl@ossi.com (Tony Luck) writes:
- >>So, finally, here is my question. Why doesn't /etc/mount grok "lo" entries
- >>in /etc/fstab?
- >
- >Whoops ... 10 minutes more experimentation showed that making a symbolic link
- >from /etc/mount_lo to /usr/etc/mount_lo suddenly made /etc/mount understand
- >the "lo" filesystem type. I guess that "tfs" might start working with a
- >link from /etc/mount_tfs to /usr/etc/mount_tfs too. I wonder why sun ship
- >systems without these links installed?
-
- Sun assumes that /usr/etc is in the path of the user running the mount
- command. This was also a problem when /usr/etc was left out
- of /etc/rc.local in one release. In general, the philosophy of
- 4.X (and other systems adopting the reorg) is that only data files
- exist in /etc and all executables are in /usr/etc. Symbolic links
- exist to provide backward compatibility for executeables that existed
- in /etc in 3.X, mount_lo did not exist in 3.X.
-
- Now in Solaris 2.0 /usr/etc is gone...
-
- -David
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