$fstab variable in fai scripts

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Fri Apr 19 10:09:28 CEST 2002


>>>>> On 18 Apr 2002 19:22:19 +0200, Thomas Montfort <thomas.montfort at insa-tlse.fr> said:

    > Hello,

    > looking at fai installation scripts, I don't understand the use
    > of the $fstab variable : some routines use this variable (e.g.,
    > task_mountdisks), whereas the 'setup_harddisks' script (called
    > during the previous install task, task_partition) use the
    > hardcoded name $filename = "$ENV{LOGDIR}/fstab"

$fstab is fixed in setup_harddisks, since this tool is only used with
Linux, where /etc/fstab is used. But I'm porting FAI to Solaris on SUN
Sparc hardware. Solaris uses /etc/vfstab. So it's a variable to be
prepared for the future.

-- 
Gruss Thomas



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