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On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> 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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I don't follow this: it seems like umount -a is supposed to unmount |
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all filesystems. umount -a -t tmpfs would unmount all tmpfs |
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filesystems. /run should be included in that set, even if mtab is a |
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regular file. |
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