From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
To: DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:24:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414EDA10.7050304@hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040920105950.GI5482@DervishD>
DervishD wrote:
> Hi Olaf :)
>
> * Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> dixit:
>
>
>>>then /etc/mtab can die. Comments? Better solutions?
>>>
>>>
>>Andries, /etc/mtab is obsolete since the day when /proc/self/mounts was
>>introduced. So, kill it today from your mount binary! TODAY. ...
>>
>>
>
> Bad idea... ;))) I upgraded my 'mount' yesterday. I was using a
>mount from Debian, from 1998 more or less, that worked flawlessly
>except for the '--bind' feature and things like those. I used
>/etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts, and all worked OK except for
>the double root entry and the need to manually call losetup to delete
>unused /dev/loop entries.
>
> But after the upgrade I no longer could umount a filesystem that
>I mounted as 'user', because the device is a symlink and the 'user'
>option is not stored in /proc/mounts. So my problems were:
>
>
Using a mtab that is a link to /proc/mounts fails with quota too.
Quta tools read /etc/mtab looking for "usrquota" and or "grpquota"
mount options. These appear in a normal /etc/mtab but not in /proc/mounts,
so the tools gets the mistaken impression that no fs actually use quotas.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 22:05 OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e Andries.Brouwer
2004-09-20 9:46 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 10:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 10:54 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 11:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 11:51 ` Paulo Marques
2004-09-20 12:11 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 12:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 12:00 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 10:23 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 10:56 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 11:16 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 11:26 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 11:38 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 11:50 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:02 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 12:07 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:14 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 12:19 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:34 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 12:38 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 12:54 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 13:19 ` CaT
2004-09-20 13:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 13:15 ` CaT
2004-09-20 10:59 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 13:24 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2004-09-20 13:21 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 13:32 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-20 14:12 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-21 7:20 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-21 9:18 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-20 15:24 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-20 11:11 ` David Gómez
2004-09-20 11:06 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 11:38 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-09-20 11:59 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 12:32 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-09-20 14:16 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-21 16:45 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-09-21 21:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-22 17:05 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-09-22 18:39 ` Andries Brouwer
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