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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-09-26 10:10:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-09-26 10:10:31 +0200 |
| commit | c6ecdd55fc994003a3cabf9fd3adf512908a7d28 (patch) | |
| tree | 7aef6c6d2edf2cf4f65ec18af6c074f202acea35 /hurd/translator/mtab.mdwn | |
| parent | 8316560e3c9dd8b89e1140cd07649aa5f311d955 (diff) | |
hurd/translator/mtab: New page, based on former community/gsoc/project_ideas/mtab.
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diff --git a/hurd/translator/mtab.mdwn b/hurd/translator/mtab.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8eca15b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/mtab.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +In traditional monolithic system, the kernel keeps track of all mounts; the +information is available through `/proc/mounts` (on Linux at least), and in a +very similar form in `/etc/mtab`. + +The Hurd on the other hand has a totally +[[decentralized_file_system|hurd/virtual_file_system]]. There is no single +entity involved in all mounts. Rather, only the parent file system to which a +mountpoint ([[hurd/translator]]) is attached is involved. As a result, there +is no central place keeping track of mounts. + +The `mtab` translator has been implemented; see the [[discussion]] subpage for +design considerations. |