On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 07:21:47AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > > > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? > > Apart from breaking umount -a and some other things? > None at all ;) > > (The breakage is visible e.g. with umount -a tmpfs, which used to be > quite useful if you had a few chroots with /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs and > wanted to reset them. Now it'll also punt random things like /run if > you're lucky - and in the past it knocked out the OpenRC state directory > reliably) > > There are pretty good historical reasons for having /etc/mtab as a file, > maybe you should do some archeology before just trying to change things.
and maybe you should think before you accuse. Coming to this list *is* doing that archaeology. If I were going to change things without doing that archaeology, I would just make the change happen without warning. William
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