Re: F15: ugly behavior of "df"

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On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 23:15 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: 
> 
> Am 21.07.2011 23:04, schrieb Karel Zak:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:09:08AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> >>   /proc/mounts does not seem to distinguish bind mounts - so this may
> >> have to be a kernel change and perhaps adding /proc/mounts/bind and
> >> moving bind mounts 1 level down - this is not an area I know a lot about
> >> however, so I'll leave this to the real experts.
> > 
> >  I've already talked about it in this list... "bind" is operation, not
> >  state of any mountpoint. Something like /proc/mounts/bind does not
> >  make sense from kernel's point of view
> 
> sorry but if i get borked as suer with endless lists in "df"
> and useless warnings while callign "df" the kernels point
> of view does not matter for me!
> 
> you want a example of the real world - here it is:
> 
> * openssh / sftp
> * chroot
> 
> Match User anyuser
>   ChrootDirectory               /some/mepty/folder
> 
> * to use sftp as ftp-replacement you need bind-mounts
> * create 20 empty folders
> * every of this gets a bind-mount to the users webspaces
> 
> having 100 user with 5 subfolders in F15 means you
> see a list with 500 entries calling "df" in F15
> 
> is this funny?
> no it is not!

But it still does just mean that df must be fixed, not
that /proc/mounts/bind would make any sense or even if patched somehow
would be acceptable into the kernel.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb

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