From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>,
Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:53:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030302125315.GH45@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoy942s6lt.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
Hi Miles :)
Miles Bader dixit:
> /var is clearly the right place for this; if /var isn't mounted
> initially, I'd suggest that mount should simply not update any file
> at that point, and the init-script that mounts /var can be
> responsible from propagating information from /proc/mounts to
> /var/whatever.
In an embedded system I built a time ago, /etc/mtab was first a
symlink to /proc/mounts, but after a while I made it a symlink to
/var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK.
Raúl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-02 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-19 11:21 About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts DervishD
2003-02-26 9:18 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-26 10:26 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-26 11:00 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 11:14 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 11:44 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-26 12:16 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 12:34 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 13:39 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 13:54 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 14:23 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-27 4:14 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 6:40 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 7:03 ` Joseph Wenninger
2003-02-27 8:28 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-05 0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-27 7:06 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 8:25 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 8:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 9:21 ` jw schultz
2003-02-27 9:49 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 23:33 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 12:48 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-27 23:28 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-28 6:15 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-03-02 13:04 ` DervishD
2003-03-02 14:16 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-03 1:04 ` jw schultz
2003-03-03 12:22 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 2:02 ` jw schultz
2003-03-05 12:57 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-06 1:18 ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 23:30 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 11:16 ` DervishD
2003-03-04 11:08 ` DervishD
2003-02-27 9:46 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 9:58 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 12:26 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-02-27 7:07 ` Joseph Wenninger
2003-02-27 7:08 ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 8:12 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 9:11 ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 16:00 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-27 16:40 ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 19:47 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 22:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-27 22:31 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 23:54 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-28 1:37 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-02 12:53 ` DervishD [this message]
2003-03-02 14:00 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 11:02 ` DervishD
2003-03-04 12:09 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 14:53 ` DervishD
2003-03-02 12:51 ` DervishD
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