Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Heads up. > > Following the util-linux mailing list, I see that they want to change > /etc/mtab to a symlink to /proc/mounts. The outstanding issues are > mount.nfs and pam_mount. > > This is also to support systemd.
Sigh. Have I recently reiterated my extreme dislike of anything having to do with systemd? It seems to be used as a "reason" for a *LOT* of recent changes coming from RedHat and Ubuntu, which (a) terribly complicate everything if you're not using systemd, and (b) are of negligible benefit if you are. (Or at least, (b) above applies to everything I've seen so far.) And then they claim it's backward compatible. If that's true, then why are you changing around the way everything has worked for years? Argh. That's not to say that making it a symlink is necessarily bad -- as long as you're running a recent enough kernel (which we are) to store the mount options in /proc/<pid>/mounts. (Though they better get the kinks worked out of NFS and PAM before they do this.) It's just that using systemd as an argument for changing it around leaves a *really* bad taste in my mouth. (See also the last few udev releases, and the current direction of development. Make life with systemd a *tiny* bit easier, at the cost of breaking all other systems. Sigh.) > We need to consider this as a fairly major change. Absolutely agreed.
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