Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 08:07 +0100, Petr Uzel wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:56:00AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Systemd does not support /etc/mtab anymore. Mirroring volatile kernel
> > state in the filesystem is a concept which you can not win with today's
> > setups. It must be a symlink to /proc/mounts.
> >
> > Systemd will log an error now, when /etc/mtab is not a symlink. 
>
> I agree writable /etc/mtab is something we should get rid of (and
> AFAIK util-linux upstream is working on it). OTOH, there is still some
> information missing in /proc/mounts compared to what's written in mtab
> - e.g. the 'user' option will if mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts.
>
> How do you plan to deal with this?

It will likely be stored in private file(s) in /dev/.mount/*.

Kay

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