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Re: [MiNT] Easymint filesystem checks



On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, [ISO-8859-15] Thomas Jürges wrote:

# > 	USually fstab is manually (or tool under user control) edited, 
# > since it may include network drives, usb drives, or mountpoints from 
# > userland FUSE daemons, or use different mount names (UUID versus /dev, 
# > etc.) Hence, its not good to generate fstab under most OSes.
# 
# Right.  That is one point that I don't get about MiNT.  Why have an
# fstab if it  is auto-generated anyway?  Either let the user set it up
# manually or don't bother having it and maintain everything internally.

	In the case of an auto-generated one, it is probably for 
convenience of unix ports (but then, things cruising through fstab are 
probably going to break on other points anyway). It'd be clever if it was 
popped out as an option (to make porting easier for those who need it), 
but ignored by any TOS-aware applications. *Shrug*

		jeff

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