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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 07:21:47AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a |
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> > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. |
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> > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? |
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> Apart from breaking umount -a and some other things? |
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> None at all ;) |
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> (The breakage is visible e.g. with umount -a tmpfs, which used to be |
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> quite useful if you had a few chroots with /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs and |
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> wanted to reset them. Now it'll also punt random things like /run if |
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> you're lucky - and in the past it knocked out the OpenRC state directory |
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> reliably) |
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> There are pretty good historical reasons for having /etc/mtab as a file, |
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> maybe you should do some archeology before just trying to change things. |
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and maybe you should think before you accuse. Coming to this list *is* |
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doing that archaeology. If I were going to change things without doing |
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that archaeology, I would just make the change happen without warning. |
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William |
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