On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:37:49PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I just wanted to check with you which versions of util-linux-ng would
> work correctly with /etc/mtab removed
[...]
> If 2.19 is required
Yes. Note that "mtab removed" means mtab is symlink to /proc/mounts :-)
> I'd be interested to know how experimental libmount support is.
The code is not well tested.
> i.e. are there any known regressions or failing use cases which we
> should be aware of, or any other reasons not to enable it at this
> point?
Probably the most problematic thing is read-only bind. The problem is
described in the mount man page and this problem is not specific to
2.19, but to all systems without mtab.
with mtab:
mount --bind olddir newdir
mount -o remount,ro newdir
without mtab:
mount --bind olddir newdir
mount -o remount,ro,bind olddir newdir
^^^^
The another problem is
mount -o loop /path/foo.img /mnt
mount | grep /path/foo.img
where the grep command returns nothing on systems without mtab and
with old kernels (< 2.6.37). The latest kernel provides info about
loopdevs in /sys, so mtab is unnecessary.
> Have you removed mtab in Fedora/RedHat yet?
Yes, this is my plan for Fedora rawhide, because mtab is unsupported
by systemd. On systems without systemd I'd suggest to be conservative
and compile mount without --enable-libmount-mount.
Note that more utils depend on mtab. It's not enough to updated
mount(8) -- the long term goal is to modify also mount.<type> helpers
to use libmount library (this is my goal for this year). Then we can
say that mtab is really dead.
Karel
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