From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 19491@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19491: /etc/mtab give wrong entries for early-mounted items.
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:50:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k312oglc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egrbbskb.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Notably, I have:
>> /dev/sda1 /root ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
>> none /root//dev devtmpfs rw 0 0
>>
>> Which should be:
>> /dev/sda1 / ...
>> none /dev ...
>>
>> Why not make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts?
>
> This sounds appealing, but it seems that libmount in util-linux will
> insist to update /etc/mtab.
>
> Do you have evidence that it could cope with it?
Not sure, but I think libmount should just work fine.
util-linux support this since 2.19:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-ReleaseNotes
Debian make this default at 2011:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494001
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-04 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-02 12:13 bug#19491: /etc/mtab give wrong entries for early-mounted items 宋文武
2015-01-03 18:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-04 12:50 ` 宋文武 [this message]
2015-01-04 16:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-08 13:11 ` bug#19491: Fixed 宋文武
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