Hi, /etc/mtab is kind of file reflecting mount status (similar to /proc/mounts). When using mount -n the file is not updated. Don't know what happens on lazy umount (Haven't checked)
/etc/mtab can even be symlinked /proc/mounts which is faster if you have many mounts (-> man mount) but because /proc/mounts doesn't list some options (such as user) a user will no longer be able to umount a device previously been mounted with the user option.. stage-2 contains cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab (thus overriding the sensible extra options having been saved to /etc/mtab by mount ran in stage-1) So what about using this line in stage-1 prior to any mounting? It's unlikely that you'll mount a partition with user option specified by configuration.nix but not impossible.. Do I have missed a point? Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
