From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>, Ram <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
leimy2k@gmail.com
Subject: Re: /etc/mtab and per-process namespaces
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:53:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510192253.43371.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0510170846250.18878@wombat.indigo.net.au>
On Sunday 16 October 2005 19:47, Ian Kent wrote:
> > Or, you bite the bullet and fix /proc/mounts and let distributions bind
> > mount /proc/mounts over /etc/mtab.
> >
> > Sun recognized this as a problem a long time ago and /etc/mnttab has
> > been magic for quite some time now.
>
> Don't forget to update mount as well.
>
> Ian
I'm the maintainer of the busybox mount command. We've had /etc/mtab support
be optional (you can configure it out) for a while now.
There was some fancy footwork trying to get umount to automatically free loop
devices and such, but as far as I know that's all resolved in subversion and
if we can ever get a 1.1 release out, it should all just work...
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-22 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-02 22:08 /etc/mtab and per-process namespaces David Leimbach
2005-10-04 19:14 ` David Leimbach
2005-10-04 19:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-04 19:49 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-10-04 19:52 ` David Leimbach
2005-10-04 19:43 ` Al Viro
2005-10-04 20:07 ` David Leimbach
2005-10-04 20:20 ` Al Viro
2005-10-05 16:29 ` Ram
2005-10-14 2:10 ` Mike Waychison
2005-10-17 0:47 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-20 3:53 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-10-20 3:42 ` Rob Landley
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[not found] ` <4U0uy-33E-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4U0XK-3Gp-47@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-04 21:20 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-10-05 0:14 ` Al Viro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-22 13:23 Dr. Greg Wettstein
2005-10-29 0:06 ` Ram Pai
2005-10-29 10:16 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 19:11 ` Ram Pai
2005-10-31 23:27 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-01 0:01 ` Ram Pai
2005-11-01 7:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-01 8:44 ` Rob Landley
[not found] <50rBX-76N-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <50rBX-76N-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-22 17:26 ` Bodo Eggert
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