Hi, 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?
We will need to find out which package need to do this on upgrade, likely util-linux.
Yes, util-linux sounds logical.
Thanks, Kay
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