#3208: Samba installation stores mount.cifs in wrong location
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Reporter: jrdavis | Owner: blfs-b...@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.7
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Comment(by d...@…):
Randy's assessment of the FHS guidelines is correct regarding the runlevel
requirement of programs in /usr, however, there is nothing stopping you
from mounting a cifs share with extended atrributes as /usr. So, per FHS
guidelines, the mount.cifs program does belong in /sbin. The same goes for
any other filesystem related programs that require a mount or fsck helper,
such as dosfstools, reiserfs-progs, e2fsprogs, ntfsprogs, and probably
some fo the programs from fuse, among others.
Bruce: Util-linux-ng-2.18/mount/mount.c: check_special_mountprog(),
specifically FS_SEARCH_PATH which is defined in configure by
fs_paths_defaults="/sbin:/sbin/fs.d:/sbin/fs". While we could include
/usr/sbin in the mount search path, this would likely not be correct
unless a filesystem requires other programs that are in /usr, in which
case they too should be moved to the root filesystem.
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