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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org