On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:36:49AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > And with the move of userspace to use /proc based mount tables (one > example being the symlink of /etc/mtab into /proc) even modest sized > direct mount maps will be a problem with every entry getting mounted. > > Systems will cope with this fine but larger systems not so much. Yes.. we've run into some big issues due to the change of /etc/mtab from a file to a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. Most have been worked around thus far (mostly due to Suse coming up with patches) but still have a few annoying ones. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Sr. Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com
