On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:28:57AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 10/31/2013 11:10 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > There is *many disadvantages* when you use mtab, not sure if it
> > make sense to fix the issues especially when mtab is currently
> > unused by (almost) all distributions.
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> > Maybe we can keep the fstype and not replace it with "none" for
> > mtab, but is it so important when we use "none" since 2009 and mtab
> > is almost dead?
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> I know there were a number of issues with this transition, have they
> all been worked out at this point? Is all you need to do to make the
> switch is replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/mounts? Maybe
> I'll try doing that.
... and it's also good to link mount.nfs from nfs-utils with libmount
as NFS maintains some mount options in userspace (in this case we use
private library /run/mount/utab file).
Karel
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