Re: After rebooting FCt2 /etcfstab is restored

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:45:29PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Sigh.
> 
> You are describing fstab-sync which is part of hal. Sure, there's
> missing a manpage for fstab-sync, that will happen soon, but if you

And fstab doesn't reference it (thats a polite hint to make it do so when
the page is added)

> bothered to look a bit at the software you would find that fstab-sync is
> only modifying /etc/fstab entries that has the 'managed' or 'kudzu'
> keyword. That's not really different from updfstab.

What are the locking rules. How do I update fstab without risking hal
editing the file at the same time ? Is that simple or do we want 
"vifstab" like "vipw" ?