On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:59:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes: > > > Both of these issues were due to /etc/mtab being inconsistent with > > reality. I've now corrected the code to make domtab() behave > > identically to domount() to ensure that they are always working > > in the same manner. Once /run is established, I wonder if moving > > /etc/mtab to /run/mtab would be feasible, since it would mean this > > complex and hairy setup could be dropped entirely. > > At least on linux /etc/mtab needs to link to /proc/mounts or be > removed. With Linuxes per process view of what is mounted where this is > the only way to get an accurate list of mounted filesystems. > > But there are still some things that haven't adapted yet, e.g. the > mount.nfs helper. While a link already works for most people it doesn't > work for all people yet. So this isn't something we can do today. I > think adapting software to use /run/mtab is a waste of time better spend > on getting the last view things to support /proc/mounts instead. Possibly all fixed with util-linux v2.19 with libmount enabled which adds a utab for user options. Certainly fixes bind mounts, unsure about NFS. utab currently gets stored in /dev/.mount/utab, so an obvious candidate for /run once that's here. Has anyone tried out the new util-linux yet? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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