Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:24:32 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e |
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DervishD wrote:
> Hi Olaf :) > > * Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> dixit: > > >>>then /etc/mtab can die. Comments? Better solutions? >>> >>> >>Andries, /etc/mtab is obsolete since the day when /proc/self/mounts was >>introduced. So, kill it today from your mount binary! TODAY. ... >> >> > > Bad idea... ;))) I upgraded my 'mount' yesterday. I was using a >mount from Debian, from 1998 more or less, that worked flawlessly >except for the '--bind' feature and things like those. I used >/etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts, and all worked OK except for >the double root entry and the need to manually call losetup to delete >unused /dev/loop entries. > > But after the upgrade I no longer could umount a filesystem that >I mounted as 'user', because the device is a symlink and the 'user' >option is not stored in /proc/mounts. So my problems were: > > Using a mtab that is a link to /proc/mounts fails with quota too. Quta tools read /etc/mtab looking for "usrquota" and or "grpquota" mount options. These appear in a normal /etc/mtab but not in /proc/mounts,
so the tools gets the mistaken impression that no fs actually use quotas.
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