I wrote: > I attach a patch that modifies the mount program in the util-linux > package so that if /etc/mtab is a symbolic link (to a location outside > of /proc) then mount accesses mtab at the target of the symbolic link.
I have discovered a problem with the patch I posted here. With the patch applied, umount aborts if it is called without "-n" and the mtab file is not writable. This is different from the current behavior of the umount program and, I have discovered, there are scripts out there that run umount without "-n" when the root filesystem is mounted read-only. So I have changed the patch to make umount not abort if mtab is not writable and "-n" is not specified. Get the updated patch at: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html -- Thomas Hood - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
