What's preventing us from symlinking /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and get rid of confusing situations when mtab gets out of sync with the kernel?
I tried running my system for a few months this way. The only regressions I'm seeing are: 1) the Gnome Disk Mounter panel applet seems to get confused. After a loopback mount gets unmounted, there's still an icon to remount the device. (the loopback device is correctly cleaned up at umount time). 2) on boot, the system tries to remount /sys even though it's already mounted, thus spitting this harmless error: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on / Mounting local filesystems: mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy mount: according to mtab, /sys is already mounted on /sys [FAILED] Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ] -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
