[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

[Rogutės Sparnuotos]

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 at 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.

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