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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:46:14
Message-Id: 1381733161.11086.1.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink by Peter Volkov
1 El lun, 14-10-2013 a las 09:58 +0400, Peter Volkov escribió:
2 > В Вс, 13/10/2013 в 14:13 -0700, Matt Turner пишет:
3 > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 > > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a
5 > > > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1].
6 >
7 > > Is the issue with NFS user mounts resolved? (Mentioned
8 > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd#.2Fetc.2Fmtab and elsewhere)
9 >
10 > Looks like Gentoo's nfs-utils package does not support this. nfs-utils
11 > have --enable-libmount-mount so we just need to start using it.
12 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487962
13 >
14 > BTW, most distributions did all this changes two years ago, so all
15 > packages have support for mtab. For exampled, I've checked two packages
16 > that had this problem two years ago and one package unconditionally
17 > depends on libmount (pam_mount) while another just avoids touch mtab if
18 > it's not writable and works anyway (cifs-utils). Both packages with
19 > required changes are in Gentoo's stable tree :)
20 >
21 > --
22 > Peter.
23 >
24 >
25 >
26
27 Thanks for finding the problem with NFS :)