[arch-projects] [PATCH] [initscripts] Use mount -n for devpts and shm

[Seblu]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:32:10PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
>> > We had some fallout when we inititally did this on the launch of 2.19:
>> >
>> > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23014
>> >
>> > I'm not sure if this was ever reported to upstream or what the current
>> > status of this is.
>>
>> Thanks for the poiner Dave. However, from the comment on that bug it
>> seems that we did not actually symlink mtab, just enabled the
>> libmonut, and that this might have caused the problem.
>>
>> I'll be looking into this in the near future with the aim of making
>> the switch relatively soon (if there are no known problems or open bug
>> reports against the distros who have made the change).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tom
>
> It's definitely the cause of the problem. What isn't clear is if
> upstream supports /etc/mtab as its own file when mount is linked against
> libmount.
>
> I, personally, have no arguments against modifying the initscripts to
> enforce the symlink and coordinate it with a util-linux rebuild, but I'm
> not sure others agree.
>
I switch some times ago with a /etc/mtab linked to /proc/self/mounts
and fuse works well.

smbnetfs on /home/seblu/samba type fuse.smbnetfs
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=18136,group_id=2008)
user and group are present.

As far i understand bug in #23014, it's due to a too recent util-linux
which write permissions of mounts into /proc/self/mount rather than in
/etc/mtab. So fuse cannot unmount or see something.

About Gerardo's patch, if we fix symlinks from /etc/mtab to
/proc/self/mounts, we can always to mount -n, because writing mtab
will not be necessary.

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Sébastien Luttringer
www.seblu.net