[arch-dev-public] [signoff] util-linux-2.20-3

Evangelos Foutras evangelos at foutrelis.com
Tue Sep 20 00:28:41 EDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> A new util-linux is in [testing].
>
> Changes:
>
> * add to patches from upstream, in particular fixing
> <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26059> and
> <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737091>.
>
> * enable libmount
>
> With libmount we get support for /etc/mtab being both a regular file
> and a symlink to /proc/self/mountinfo. The latter is "the future", but
> we won't force that as not all mount helpers (such as cifs, fuse, ntfs
> and nfs) have been ported yet. If you don't use any of the unported
> mount helpers, you can delete /etc/mtab and make it a symlink
> manually.
>
> I'd especially appreciate signoffs from people using the unported
> helpers, and especially with the "user" mount option, or anything else
> non-standard. There was a problem with this when we tried libmount
> with util-linux 2.19.1, but I (and Dave) could not reproduce this with
> 2.20.
>
> Please test and signoff.

NTFS and SSHFS mounting still works.

Signoff x86_64.


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