A couple of rawhide surprises

[Jonathan Corbet]

Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is what the initscripts changelog says about it:
>   - don't mount /sys and /proc in rc.sysinit - the initrd already does
> Are you not using an initrd?

Nope, no initrd.  In all my years of using Linux I've never really found
a situation where I needed one...  

Clearly this change won't bother anybody running a stock kernel, but I
bet I'm not the only nonconformist who will get bitten.

jon

Jonathan Corbet
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