On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:29:21AM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Monday 22 February 2016, Karel Zak wrote:
> > Do you mean when /etc/mtab is a regular file? For btrfs we need fs
> > root and this information is nowhere in mtab (and maybe another
> > information related to subvolumes which we have in mountinfo).
> >
> > Not sure if we really need to support this complicated use-case with
> > deprecated mtab.
>
> I wonder what could be the reason why some admins manually setup mtab
> files eventhough their distro's default is to use a link to /proc.
>
> For example on OBS (openSUSE build farm) they have always mtab files for
> any build host. Also travis is using files for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04.
>
> Is there any good reason for this? Maybe it's better for docker
No reason, in the hell is special hot room where is "mtab users"
written by blood on the dark heavy doors...
> containers or if you run things in a chroot?
I can't imagine usable chroot/container without /proc. The docker
don't use systemd so maybe they have not been forced to leave mtab.
Karel
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