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Re: Get rid of /etc/mtab ?



On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:24:56AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> What you are suggesting is an in memory file that mount can write anything
> it wants to. The kernel cannot meaningfully do checking on the contents. If
> you want that, perhaps you should suggest the creating of a /proc/temp for
> this purpose.

tmpfs

(I do think it'd be a "nice thing" to get all non-configfiles out of
the root of /etc, including mtab, but it's not something I'd lose any
sleep over.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard


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