Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I think /etc/mtab is on its way out. A 2.4.x kernel with devfs has a > > /proc/mounts that actually has a proper line for the root filesystem. > > Linking the two files would probably actually work on such a system > > without breakage. > > Does 2.4 now also include the information on which loop devices are > related to which filesystems? AFAIK that's the only thing that went > strange after linking /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab; loop devices not being > freed after unmounting.
When doing this I had a problem with the mount programme insisting on explicitly checking whether /etc/mtab were a symlink and explicitly breaking if it were. Why is this? Mk
