Package: partman-target Version: 77 Severity: important Tags: patch /proc has been created as part of the default /etc/fstab for some time. However, this is not needed, and has been found to be detrimental in some cases. /proc is mounted by the initramfs (if used), or else by the mountkernfs init script, making the fstab entry redundant. If the naming of the filesystem differs to the name used in the initramfs or init scripts, this can cause the mountall script to fail. #425199 is an example of this.
Note this obsoletes #378984; mountkernfs now uses the mount options from /etc/fstab for all filesystems /if present/, meaning that no special support is required on the part of the installer, given that the regular initscripts handle this job in the general case--no special /proc support is required. In short, removing /proc has zero downside--it's all handled outside fstab by default, and has been since forever, and we pick up the settings from /proc should there be an entry there, so we're both backward compatible /and/ customisable by the admin. Regards, Roger -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>From 5da5941d594e4d02054d9f14549e70e8af87f0fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Leigh <rle...@debian.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 00:05:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] create_fstab_header: Drop /proc /proc has been created as part of the default /etc/fstab for some time. However, this is not needed, and has been found to be detrimental in some cases. /proc is mounted by the initramfs (if used), or else by the mountkernfs init script, making the fstab entry redundant. If the naming of the filesystem differs to the name used in the initramfs or init scripts, this can cause the mountall script to fail. Signed-off-by: Roger Leigh <rle...@debian.org> --- finish.d/create_fstab_header | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/finish.d/create_fstab_header b/finish.d/create_fstab_header index 8aece0d..e99fa5e 100755 --- a/finish.d/create_fstab_header +++ b/finish.d/create_fstab_header @@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ case `udpkg --print-os` in # EOF printf "%-15s %-15s %-7s %-15s %-7s %s\n" '# <file system>' '<mount point>' '<type>' '<options>' '<dump>' '<pass>' >> /target/etc/fstab - - printf "%-15s %-15s %-7s %-15s %-7s %s\n" proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 >> /target/etc/fstab ;; kfreebsd) -- 1.7.10
