Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

2010-06-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Thomas Bächler (2010-06-09 14:44): > Am 09.06.2010 14:34, schrieb Dan McGee: > >> Not that I know the right way, but am running Arch with /etc/mtab copied > >> (or symlinked, on another system) from /proc/mounts for more than a year > >> now, without any problems. > > Having mtab as a symlink is a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.06.2010 14:34, schrieb Dan McGee: >> Not that I know the right way, but am running Arch with /etc/mtab copied >> (or symlinked, on another system) from /proc/mounts for more than a year >> now, without any problems. Having mtab as a symlink is a bad idea, mount writes more options into mtab

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

2010-06-09 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > Thomas Bächler (2010-06-09 09:47): >> Am 09.06.2010 03:40, schrieb Dan McGee: >> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Bächler >> > wrote: >> >> Our current process of initializing /etc/mtab is >> >> hackish and probably error-prone,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

2010-06-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Thomas Bächler (2010-06-09 09:47): > Am 09.06.2010 03:40, schrieb Dan McGee: > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Our current process of initializing /etc/mtab is > >> hackish and probably error-prone, replace it by > >> simply copying /proc/mounts. > >> --- > > > > Look