From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Kent Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:41:57 +0800 Message-ID: <1212558119.3146.46.camel@raven.themaw.net> References: <20080603105258.GV28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1212499623.3025.46.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1212509263.3025.66.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1212513189.3025.101.camel@raven.themaw.net> <20080603173029.GD28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080603191859.GG28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080603230026.GH28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1212547323.3146.45.camel@raven.themaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, jmoyer@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jesper@krogh.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:59914 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751164AbYFDFpU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:45:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:34 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Perhaps, if we didn't use /etc/mtab anywhere. > > It would make a difference if we could "mount" /proc/mounts onto a file > > such as /etc/mtab and everyone always did that. > > That's actually remarkably close to being possible. Loopback mounts > have already been fixed not to rely on /etc/mtab. The only major > piece missing is "user" mounts, and there's already a patchset for > that waiting for review by the VFS maintainers. After that, it's just > a "simple" issue of fixing up all the userspace pieces. Could be > finished in the next decade, possibly ;) ;)