On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thomas Bächler (2010-06-09 09:47): >> Am 09.06.2010 03:40, schrieb Dan McGee: >> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org> >> > wrote: >> >> Our current process of initializing /etc/mtab is >> >> hackish and probably error-prone, replace it by >> >> simply copying /proc/mounts. >> >> --- >> > >> > Looks good to me (but untested). This goes way back to the roots of Arch, >> > wow. >> >> The only weirdness that I found is that "rootfs" is now shown as a mount: >> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 >> >> Technically this is correct, but some tools might become confused. >> Another way would be to grep -v ^rootfs from /proc/mounts when creating >> mtab. I am entirely unsure what the "right way" is here. > > Not that I know the right way, but am running Arch with /etc/mtab copied > (or symlinked, on another system) from /proc/mounts for more than a year > now, without any problems.
Almost all embedded distros do this as well; rootfs is there in my OpenWRT install because mtab is just a symlink. I would hope most tools can cope with this guy. -Dan
