On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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.
Why should this not be treated as a systemd bug? > If all the other distros are doing it, there is probably a reason. Perhaps they lack a FreeBSD variant and therefore see no reason to be different than Fedora. > 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. How do these corrections affect Gentoo FreeBSD?
