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From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:53:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030302125315.GH45@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoy942s6lt.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>

    Hi Miles :)

 Miles Bader dixit:
> /var is clearly the right place for this; if /var isn't mounted
> initially, I'd suggest that mount should simply not update any file
> at that point, and the init-script that mounts /var can be
> responsible from propagating information from /proc/mounts to
> /var/whatever.

    In an embedded system I built a time ago, /etc/mtab was first a
symlink to /proc/mounts, but after a while I made it a symlink to
/var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK.

    Raúl

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-02 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-19 11:21 About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts DervishD
2003-02-26  9:18 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-26 10:26   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-26 11:00     ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 11:14       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 11:44         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-26 12:16         ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 12:34           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 13:39             ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-26 13:54               ` Måns Rullgård
2003-02-26 14:23                 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-02-27  4:14   ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27  6:40     ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  7:03       ` Joseph Wenninger
2003-02-27  8:28         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-05  0:03           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-02-27  7:06       ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27  8:25         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  8:42           ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27  9:21             ` jw schultz
2003-02-27  9:49               ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 23:33                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 12:48               ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-27 23:28                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-28  6:15                   ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-03-02 13:04               ` DervishD
2003-03-02 14:16                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-03  1:04                   ` jw schultz
2003-03-03 12:22                     ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04  2:02                       ` jw schultz
2003-03-05 12:57                         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-06  1:18                           ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 23:30                             ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 11:16                       ` DervishD
2003-03-04 11:08                   ` DervishD
2003-02-27  9:46             ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  9:58               ` Miles Bader
2003-02-27 12:26                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-02-27  7:07       ` Joseph Wenninger
2003-02-27  7:08       ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27  8:12         ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27  9:11           ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 16:00             ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:31               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-27 16:40               ` Dominik Kubla
2003-02-27 19:47                 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 22:13                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-27 22:31                     ` Kasper Dupont
2003-02-27 23:54                       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-28  1:37                         ` Miles Bader
2003-03-02 12:53     ` DervishD [this message]
2003-03-02 14:00       ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 11:02         ` DervishD
2003-03-04 12:09           ` Kasper Dupont
2003-03-04 14:53             ` DervishD
2003-03-02 12:51   ` DervishD

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