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mount/umount/swapon/swapoff(8) for Linux 0.97.3
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The most significant improvement over the first release is the repair of
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at least a half dozen really dumb bugs, mostly involving null pointers.
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These bugs caused frequent core dumps and really made the code unusable.
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Some race conditions in the lock handling code have been removed.
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Swapoff is available for 0.97.3 and later kernels.
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Swapon supports multiple swap files. In particular, swapon -a will try
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to enable swapping on all the swap entries in /etc/fstab.
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File system specific mount options are now supported. This is of particular
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utility with Werner Almesberger's msdos fs.
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Umount -a now reads /etc/mtab instead of /etc/fstab (thanks to David
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Engel for a valuable discussion on this and other points). In addition,
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it umounts the entries in reverse order, ensuring that it tries to umount
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/usr/spool before /usr, for instance.
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Mount will now print mtab for ordinary users as well as for the superuser.
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Several people pointed out this deficiency, and it was a real no-brainer
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that broke it in the first release.
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Thanks to Linus, for another great release. 0.97.3 compiled the first time
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out and is working flawlessly. Thanks also to Ross Biro, for his work on
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Linux TCP/IP which has made it much easier to get this little thing off my
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machine. Special thanks to everyone who put up with my bugs.
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Brickbats etc. to
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Doug Quale
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quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu
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