Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:28:33 +0200 | From | Andreas Haumer <> | Subject | Re: Patch for /proc/mounts problems on 2.2.x |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Erik Andersen wrote: > > > > On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 11:43:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > > There is another good reason to ditch /etc/mtab: as a static file, it > > > > And it is supposed to be writable though it lives in /etc. It should live > > in /var. Has the LSB ever gotten around to addressing this wart? > > This is a pita for embedded systems... > > > > /var doesn't work either, because it may not be available at boot. > Yep, and that are exactly the reasons we wanted to use /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab in the first place: on our Diskless Client we have the root fs mounted readonly (NFS mount) :-)
Now we want to use it on "normal" systems, too, and so we came across the other problems (like missing quota flags)
- andreas
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