On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > And the magic trick is to keep "system mounts" like /run out of > /etc/mtab (willful desynchronization) so that umount -a doesn't nuke > them by accident. > > ... why else would you keep such data in two non-synchronized locations?! :D >
Sounds interesting and all, but I don't think this really should be driving our system design (the desire to have a command that is supposed to unmount everything not actually unmount everything). It wouldn't take more than a few lines of bash to just write a script to unmount the stuff you're interested in - I routinely toss in my chroots a script to mount/unmount stuff (tmpfs, bind-mounts, proc/sys, etc). There could very well be other issues with changing mtab to a symlink though, so continue to speak up if there are other things that could go wrong. Rich
