Re: Specifying root device in /etc/fstab

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

Jared McNeill wrote:
> The ARM images currently contain an fstab entry that points to ld0. I want 
> to make this more generic as we may have different root devices and/or 
> root device units may not be consistent across reboots.
> 
> I came up with this simple patch to getfsspecname that allows ROOT=<part> 
> syntax for fs_spec. It uses the value of the kern.root_device sysctl to 
> construct a device path, so my fstab can have entries like this:
> 
>    ROOT=a          /               ffs     rw,noatime      1 1
>    ROOT=b          none            swap    sw      0 0
>    ROOT=e          /boot           msdos   rw      1 1
> 
> Thoughts? Suggestions?

Could this also be leveraged to fix PR 51503, and/or to eliminate the need
for the amd64 live-image target to build both NetBSD-N.M-amd64-live-wd0root.img
and NetBSD-N.M-amd64-live-sd0root.img?
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost