Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:30:51 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Minor sys_umount fix (changes semantics slightly) |
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Guest section writes: > On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 05:41:03PM +0000, Malcolm Beattie wrote: > > > > > Here's a one-letter patch for 2.3.x to sys_umount to allow it to > > > > unmount filesystems whose root inode is a symlink. > > Yes, so again. Everyone agrees, I think, that mount should follow > symlinks. Moreover, one expects a certain parallelism between the > behaviour of mount and umount. So umount should follow symlinks > until it comes to the mount point. Your problem is that the mount > point used to be an ordinary directory but now is overmounted by > a filesystem that has a symlink at the root.
I really would like to see mount(8) *not* follow symlinks. If I have /dev/sda2 -> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
then the current behaviour yields a huge <df> output. If I mount /dev/sda2, then that's what I want to see in my <df> output.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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