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

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:17:05AM +0200, Tom Gundersen 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

This should be /proc/self/mounts. Not mountinfo.

> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom