From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bind mounts record fstype of none
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:28:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52727739.70301@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131031151001.GH1536@x2.net.home>
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On 10/31/2013 11:10 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> There is *many disadvantages* when you use mtab, not sure if it
> make sense to fix the issues especially when mtab is currently
> unused by (almost) all distributions.
>
> Maybe we can keep the fstype and not replace it with "none" for
> mtab, but is it so important when we use "none" since 2009 and mtab
> is almost dead?
I know there were a number of issues with this transition, have they
all been worked out at this point? Is all you need to do to make the
switch is replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/mounts? Maybe
I'll try doing that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-31 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-30 15:15 Bind mounts record fstype of none Phillip Susi
2013-10-30 15:39 ` Bernhard Voelker
2013-10-30 15:59 ` Phillip Susi
2013-10-30 16:23 ` Bernhard Voelker
2013-10-30 16:31 ` Helmut Hullen
2013-10-30 16:45 ` Dave Reisner
2013-10-30 17:04 ` Helmut Hullen
2013-10-30 16:48 ` Bernhard Voelker
2013-10-30 19:10 ` Phillip Susi
2013-10-30 16:13 ` Helmut Hullen
2013-10-31 10:57 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-31 14:18 ` Phillip Susi
2013-10-31 15:10 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-31 15:28 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-10-31 16:50 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-31 16:53 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-31 15:19 ` Karel Zak
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