nftl/DoC Mill. root fs question

[tyson at rwii.com]

On  4 Dec, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Levi Khatskevitch wrote:
> 
>> it reports that / is /dev/root device and not /dev/nftla1 what did I miss?
> 
> This is unix foolishness. Mounts are kept in /etc/mtab. Since the file
> system is readonly, this won't get fixed, since you can't update files in
> /etc. 
> 
> ron

I run systems with read-only file systems.  Among other thigs, we
symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts.

Cheers!
Ty

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