[patch] fstab-update.sh

Joe Shaw joeshaw at novell.com
Mon May 17 14:56:12 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 23:44 +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:
> yes, but it doesn't protect against partial updates when the script
> gets killed for some reason (system shutdown, whatever)

Ok, fair enough.  I wanted to make sure we weren't just working around a
bug in the locking. :)

I've committed the patch.  Thanks.

> we should add even more checking to protect against a full file system.
> (ok, one needs a rather large fstab to make it fill more than one block,
> but anyway)

Yeah, seems unlikely, but definitely worthwhile.

Joe


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