On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I don't see a compelling case being made for why we should make this > change apart from "all the other distros are doing it", and quite a > few reasons why we shouldn't. I'm open to being convinced, so please > tell me why this is good for Gentoo users.
So far I've seen a reference to a bug associated with a bunch of systemd issues when it isn't mounted, and the point that many things break in namespaces without the symlink, since /etc/mtab does not reflect the state of the namespace. The latter in particular seems like a pretty fundamental limitation - the very concept of /etc/mtab is that mounts are global, and the design of linux is that mounts are NOT global. If all the other distros are doing it, there is probably a reason. As far as problems with switching - I've only seen one or two correctable issues that seem compelling (NFS issues, and PAM issues). There was a bunch of talk about how making this change will cause a command designed to unmount everything actually unmount everything as well. But please continue to chime in with both pros and cons. Rich
