On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 09:35:41PM -0700, Robby Workman wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > libmount supports three scenarios:
> >
> > 1) regular classic /etc/mtab
> >
> > 2) /etc/mtab symlink to /proc/self/mount -- in this case libmount uses
> > /proc/self/mountinfo and /run/mount/utab
> >
> > The current default is to detect symlink and on-the-fly switch
> > between 1) and 2).
> >
> > 3) --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo -- don't care about the symlink
> > and always use /proc/self/mountinfo. This is robust solution required
> > for example by systemd, because unfortunately sometimes people use
> > broken stuff (init scripts, tools, etc.) which removes the symlink.
> >
> >
> > I'd like to make 3) default, the question is what with mtab code:
> >
> > a) #ifdef all mtab code (and add --enable-libmount-support-mtab)
> >
> > b) remove mtab support at all (because it's evil and horrible code)
> >
> > Comments?
>
>
> We still use SysV init because it suits our needs just fine, and we
> have no plans to migrate to systemd in the foreseeable future, so
> we don't have any other compelling reason to use anything other than
> classic /etc/mtab. As such, we'd certainly appreciate, at the very
> least, leaving the mtab support in util-linux.
This discussion is really not about init, but about mtab that is
broken by design.
Karel
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