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

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 09.06.2010 14:34, schrieb Dan McGee:
>> 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.

Having mtab as a symlink is a bad idea, mount writes more options into
mtab than the kernel knows about.

> 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.

/me shrugs.

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