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On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I don't see a compelling case being made for why we should make this |
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>> change apart from "all the other distros are doing it", and quite a |
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>> few reasons why we shouldn't. I'm open to being convinced, so please |
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>> tell me why this is good for Gentoo users. |
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> So far I've seen a reference to a bug associated with a bunch of |
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> systemd issues when it isn't mounted, and the point that many things |
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> break in namespaces without the symlink, since /etc/mtab does not |
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> reflect the state of the namespace. The latter in particular seems |
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> like a pretty fundamental limitation - the very concept of /etc/mtab |
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> is that mounts are global, and the design of linux is that mounts are |
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> NOT global. |
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Why should this not be treated as a systemd bug? |
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> If all the other distros are doing it, there is probably a reason. |
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Perhaps they lack a FreeBSD variant and therefore see no reason to be different than Fedora. |
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> As far as problems with switching - I've only seen one or two |
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> correctable issues that seem compelling (NFS issues, and PAM issues). |
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> There was a bunch of talk about how making this change will cause a |
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> command designed to unmount everything actually unmount everything as |
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> well. |
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How do these corrections affect Gentoo FreeBSD? |
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