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Jeff Garzik wrote: [...] > > Bug 1 - don't softlink directly to /proc/mounts :) embedded guys > typically do this, and you see why it bites you in the ass :) > Jeff, this remembers me on some discussion on LKML we had almost exactly 2 years ago (look for the thread starting with Message-ID Pine.LNX.4.02.10010251043060.5657-100000@rimbaud.xss.co.at) Do you remember? My opinion on this issue is still the same: - Not only "embedded guys" symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts! We do this for years now on our diskless workstations, because here our root-fs (and therefore /etc) is mounted readonly and so there is no way to update a _regular_ "/etc/mtab" file on a running system. - /etc should contain only static configuration information. The table of mounted filesystems is not this kind of data. It's state information and should live somewhere else. - the table of mounted filesystems is information which the kernel must have, anyway. Why maintain a separate file in userspace? Comments? - Andreas -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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