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From: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
To: util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mount -f regression in v2.21's new-mount
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:22:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309142216.GA7991@foxbat.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fde29ffbccb41cf5eb3a286c2f7e954@quantum.linuxfromscratch.org>

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 04:30:02AM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> 
> Thanks!  Is there a consensus opinion on whether users should be
> using a regular mtab or a symlink to /proc/self/mountinfo?

I've seen a couple of quite nasty bugs with regular mtab (caused by
the fact that /etc/mtab got out of sync with /proc/self/mounts) so
I'd recommend to avoid regular /etc/mtab wherever possible.

My 2c,

Petr

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Petr Uzel
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06 22:43 mount -f regression in v2.21's new-mount Matt Burgess
2012-03-07  7:49 ` Karel Zak
2012-03-07 22:10   ` Matt Burgess
2012-03-08  9:23     ` Karel Zak
2012-03-08 20:25       ` Matt Burgess
2012-03-09 10:53         ` Karel Zak
2012-03-09 11:30           ` Matthew Burgess
2012-03-09 12:29             ` Karel Zak
2012-03-11 19:06               ` Matt Burgess
2012-03-12 14:09                 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-03-12 14:32                 ` Karel Zak
2012-03-12 17:17                   ` Pádraig Brady
2012-03-09 14:22             ` Petr Uzel [this message]

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