Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Bryan Kadzban wrote:
>> Mmm? Did mount stop writing to /etc/mtab or something? That needs
>> to be writable no matter which blkid / uuid library you use.
>> Unless you don't mind having "-o user" broken (I don't, but others
>> probably do); then you can symlink it to /proc/mounts.
>
> Not yet, but Karel Zak, th emaintainer wrote: "My plan is to support
> systems without /etc/mtab and use /proc/self/mountinfo in
> util-linux-ng 2.{17,18} (September/October 2009 or so...)."/proc/self/mountinfo doesn't contain the user that mounted the FS, so "-o user" is still broken. (At least in 2.6.29.2 that's the case.) It probably isn't very hard to add in the kernel, but it's going to be hard to get util-linux-ng to properly support fstab-with-user in a case like that, without it. (Also, glibc's getmntent may not be able to parse the mountinfo file, so symlinking /etc/mtab to it will not work unless *all* programs that use mtab have a fallback parser they can use. Probably not a huge issue though, and it's definitely fixable with a getmntent hack.) > I'm not sure when mountinfo went into the kernel. 2.6.26.4 has it, > but 2.2.22.5 does not. Google points out that kernelnewbies.org's LinuxChanges pages say 2.6.26. :-)
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