Re: A mount that follows a symlink at /etc/mtab

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> One of the remaining obstacles to running cleanly with root fs
> mounted read-only has been the mount program, which can only
> write the mtab file to /etc/.  Currently, if /etc/mtab is a
> symbolic link then mount will not write to it.  People have
> wished (# 94076, #154438) that mount would follow a symlink at
> /etc/mtab so that it could point somewhere like /run/mtab .

And I have patched it to do so and send them in a while back. Didn't
you read the bts?

MfG
        Goswin