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Kay Sievers <kasievers@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Kay Sievers <kasievers@xxxxxxxxxx> 2010-11-10 01:32:53 UTC 
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Systemd will not support /etc/mtab being a regular file. It needs to be
replaced by a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. With todays setups, mirroring
volatile kernel state in a regular file in the filesystem can not work
reliably.

There are a few uncommon features missing without /etc/mtab, and util-linux is
currently working on moving the information which is not available from the
kernel, like 'user umounts' to a private file which can't be read by other
applications than mount.

We will need to find out which package will create the /etc/mtab symlink now.

As a first step /etc/init.d/boot.rootfsck needs to stop deleting a /etc/mtab,
if it's a symlink.

/etc/init.d/boot.rootfsck is not used when systemd boots the box, but any sysv
bootup will delete this valid setup.

Ruediger, could you please get rid of the rm? Thanks.

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