nilfs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts

nilfs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts

[Peter Volkov]

Hi. 

nifs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink
to  /proc/self/mounts:
# mount -f -o remount /
mount.nilfs2: cannot modify /etc/mtab.
Please remount the partition with -f option after making /etc/mtab
writable.
nilfs_cleanerd not started

This is now real problem as most (all?) distributions are moving or
moved toward having /etc/mtab being symlink:
Fedora already did this. 
Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494001
Gentoo: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477498

This was already discussed
http://marc.info/?l=linux-nilfs&m=130832696129454&w=2 and it was planed
for 2.1 but this is still an issue with 2.1.5. Do you have any idea when
this change will happen? Thanks.

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Re: nilfs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts

[Ryusuke Konishi]

Hi,
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:12:56 +0400, Peter Volkov wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
> nifs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink
> to  /proc/self/mounts:
> # mount -f -o remount /
> mount.nilfs2: cannot modify /etc/mtab.
> Please remount the partition with -f option after making /etc/mtab
> writable.
> nilfs_cleanerd not started
> 
> This is now real problem as most (all?) distributions are moving or
> moved toward having /etc/mtab being symlink:
> Fedora already did this. 
> Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494001
> Gentoo: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477498
> 
> This was already discussed
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-nilfs&m=130832696129454&w=2 and it was planed
> for 2.1 but this is still an issue with 2.1.5. Do you have any idea when
> this change will happen? Thanks.

Did you try --enable-libmount option when configuring nilfs-utils ?

 $ ./configure --enable-libmount

This option uses libmount library and it resolves /etc/mtab related
problems.

For details, please read README file in the nilfs-utils package.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi


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Re: nilfs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts

[Peter Volkov]

В Вс, 13/10/2013 в 22:27 +0900, Ryusuke Konishi пишет:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:12:56 +0400, Peter Volkov wrote:
> > nifs_cleanerd doesn't get started when /etc/mtab is a symlink
> > to  /proc/self/mounts:
> > # mount -f -o remount /
> > mount.nilfs2: cannot modify /etc/mtab.
> > Please remount the partition with -f option after making /etc/mtab
> > writable.
> > nilfs_cleanerd not started
> 
> Did you try --enable-libmount option when configuring nilfs-utils ?
> 
>  $ ./configure --enable-libmount
> 
> This option uses libmount library and it resolves /etc/mtab related
> problems.

Thank you for help Ryusuke. That's what I was missing. Everything works
now.

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