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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/mounts "stuff"
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:19:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403CBCE6.7040405@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402241630500.4054@chaos>

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Linux version 2.2.24 (actually since pivot-root), have a
> problem with what's in /proc/mounts vs. what's written
> to /etc/mtab when mounting file-systems.
> 
> /etc/mtab
> 
> /dev/sda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb1 /usr/src ext2 rw 0 0
> 
> /proc/mounts
> 
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0

The shutdown scripts on my system seem to be compensating for this. 
However, I'm hitting another problem where I do a pivot_root to a tmpfs 
filesystem and the shutdown scripts no longer know how to deal with it 
and try to unmount the real root filesystem from under themselves, 
causing all kinds of problems.

Chris

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-25 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 21:34 /proc/mounts "stuff" Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-24 21:42 ` Chris Meadors
2004-02-25  1:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-25 15:19 ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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