From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
"Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>
Subject: Re: mount.8: mtab as symlink
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:28:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140721082859.GD17373@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53CCADA9.3020703@bernhard-voelker.de>
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 08:05:29AM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to
> /proc/mounts, and especially when you have very large numbers
> of mounts things will be much faster with that symlink, but some
> information is lost that way, and in particular using the "user"
> option will fail.
>
> ... and is scared about the last sentence.
> Is this still true? I don't have problems with mounting "user"
Oops, this is really obsolete info. Fixed. Thanks!
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-21 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 6:05 mount.8: mtab as symlink Bernhard Voelker
2014-07-21 8:28 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-07-21 21:16 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-21 21:32 ` Bernhard Voelker
2014-07-21 22:18 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-21 23:49 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-27 18:57 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-29 10:21 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-29 19:41 ` helper= and uhelper= Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-30 7:26 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-31 19:47 ` Benno Schulenberg
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