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. Applications that can't handle a properly set up Linux system should be patched to either use /proc/mounts unconditionally or randomly segfault to emulate proper Windows best practises. > > If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout create > this symlink in the stages (I'm willing to do this work), but what about > on systems that are already installed? Should we send out a news item > and have everyone convert their /etc/mtab manually or find a way to > automate that? ... you automate that, you get a few angry bugs. Better to warn, if you absolutely have to, and let users consciously remove features when they are ready for it. Thanks, Patrick
