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From: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: add test for loop option in fstab
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:29:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201602221129.22259.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160222101233.imyhujomel6ydin3@ws.net.home>

On Monday 22 February 2016, Karel Zak wrote:
> Do you mean when /etc/mtab is a regular file? For btrfs we need fs
> root and this information is nowhere in mtab (and maybe another
> information related to subvolumes which we have in mountinfo).
>
> Not sure if we really need to support this complicated use-case with
> deprecated mtab.

I wonder what could be the reason why some admins manually setup mtab 
files eventhough their distro's default is to use a link to /proc.

For example on OBS (openSUSE build farm) they have always mtab files for 
any build host. Also travis is using files for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04.

Is there any good reason for this? Maybe it's better for docker 
containers or if you run things in a chroot?

cu,
Rudi

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-22 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-11 19:45 [PATCH] tests: add test for loop option in fstab Stanislav Brabec
2016-02-12 10:10 ` Karel Zak
2016-02-12 15:28 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-02-12 15:55   ` Stanislav Brabec
2016-02-15 11:42 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-02-16 14:49   ` Karel Zak
2016-02-19 18:27     ` Stanislav Brabec
2016-02-22 10:12       ` Karel Zak
2016-02-22 10:29         ` Ruediger Meier [this message]
2016-02-22 10:53           ` Karel Zak
2016-02-22 16:36         ` Stanislav Brabec
2016-02-24 18:58           ` Stanislav Brabec
2016-02-24 21:33             ` [PATCH] tests: add test for loop option in fstab (my mistake, and two new bugs, one in kernel) Stanislav Brabec
2016-02-25 19:31               ` Stanislav Brabec
2016-03-01 15:26                 ` Stanislav Brabec
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-12 16:23 [PATCH] tests: add test for loop option in fstab Ruediger Meier

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