In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 02:40:06 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> Creating this as a symlink is possible, though it breaks in edge cases. >> Most notably, loopback mounts aren't properly freed. > >Hmm. The "user" mount option doesn't seem to work with /proc/mounts >either. Looks like /etc/mtab really belongs in /var.
Has been discussed to death in debian-devel. You can't put it in /var if that is a seperate partition (chicken-egg problem). The right solution is a /run filesystem (probably in memory, tmpfs/shmfs). The latest sysvinit makes sure to follow symlinks when erasing /etc/mtab or cleaning up /etc/mtab~ so you can just link /etc/mtab to /run/mtab and it'll work. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
