On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogutes@googlemail.com> wrote:
Thomas Bächler (2010-06-09 09:47):
Am 09.06.2010 03:40, schrieb Dan McGee:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Our current process of initializing /etc/mtab is hackish and probably error-prone, replace it by simply copying /proc/mounts. ---
Looks good to me (but untested). This goes way back to the roots of Arch, wow.
The only weirdness that I found is that "rootfs" is now shown as a mount: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
Technically this is correct, but some tools might become confused. Another way would be to grep -v ^rootfs from /proc/mounts when creating mtab. I am entirely unsure what the "right way" is here.
Not that I know the right way, but am running Arch with /etc/mtab copied (or symlinked, on another system) from /proc/mounts for more than a year now, without any problems.
Almost all embedded distros do this as well; rootfs is there in my OpenWRT install because mtab is just a symlink. I would hope most tools can cope with this guy. -Dan