On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:34 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Perhaps, if we didn't use /etc/mtab anywhere. > > It would make a difference if we could "mount" /proc/mounts onto a file > > such as /etc/mtab and everyone always did that. > > That's actually remarkably close to being possible. Loopback mounts > have already been fixed not to rely on /etc/mtab. The only major > piece missing is "user" mounts, and there's already a patchset for > that waiting for review by the VFS maintainers. After that, it's just > a "simple" issue of fixing up all the userspace pieces. Could be > finished in the next decade, possibly ;) ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
