On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:28:18AM +0100, Nix wrote:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-06-14 22:53 /dev/cdrom -> hdf
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,nosuid,nodev,noauto 0 0
>
> Now, we see this:
>
> $ mount /mnt/cdrom
> $ grep cdrom /etc/mtab
> /dev/hdf /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> $ umount /mnt/cdrom
> umount: /mnt/cdrom mount disagrees with the fstab
>
> Those new /etc/mtab contents are hardly ideal: they're the same as
> /proc/mounts now, but it's definitely a bit of a loss of information,
Yes, the new mount version uses canonicalized paths in mtab.
> It's late and I'm hay-fevery so I haven't tracked down the actual bug
> yet. I'll do it tomorrow if nobody else does (but honestly I expect
> someone else will get to this first, it's probably really easy to fix).
The problem is that fstab.c: getfs_by_specdir() doesn't convert
paths from fstab to canonical paths.
I'll fix this problem ASAP. Thanks!
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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