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AFAIK this known historical behavior that what you find in |
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`/etc/mtab` are things mounted by mount(8) (if that's what's printed by |
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running just mount). |
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Whereas /proc/mounts is the kernel view on what's mounted. |
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Curiously I don't see any difference on my gentoo box, which I think I |
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should see but I'm not sure. |
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Anyway, I've seen differences when eg. automounter was used, iirc. |
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I wouldn't be surprised if there are things that depends on this |
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behavior or if there are more cases like automounter. |
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 14:32:32 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> 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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> If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout |
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> create this symlink in the stages (I'm willing to do this work), but |
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> what about on systems that are already installed? Should we send out |
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> a news item and have everyone convert their /etc/mtab manually or |
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> find a way to automate that? |
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> William |
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477498 |
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