[gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

[William Hubbs]

All,

from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a
symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1].

Are there any remaining concerns about doing this?

If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout create
this symlink in the stages (I'm willing to do this work), but what about
on systems that are already installed? Should we send out a news item
and have everyone convert their /etc/mtab manually or find a way to
automate that?

William

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477498