[arch-dev-public] [prerelease] util-linux-2.20-rc1

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Sat Jul 30 09:47:05 EDT 2011


On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
>> I enabled libmount support in mount, but this will probably be
>> reverted before the final release unless we have good reason to
>> believe it to be safe.
>
> To my knowledge, we're still waiting on providers of mount helpers
> (samba and NFS in particular) to rewrite their helpers to use libmount
> for parsing /proc/self/mountinfo rather than /etc/mtab.

NFS is ready as far as I know (it would have to be recompiled). Don't
know about fuse and cifs though. The main reason I'm putting this out
there is to figure out exactly what would break if we made the switch.

-t


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