From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:26:07 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3i4nv$sud$1@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk
In article <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk>,
Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> wrote:
>A simpler solution, that does not require changes to the kernel
>would be to just move mtab to a more apropriate location. My
>suggestion would be to change it from /etc/mtab to /mtab.d/mtab.
>Then you could mount a tmpfs filesystem on /mtab.d. Or by making
>/mtab.d a symlink, you can get the mtab file whereever you want,
>including /etc.
/dev/shm ? Supposed to be there on many systems anyway. Fix
'mount' and 'umount' so that if they see /etc/mtab is a symlink,
they follow it and create the temp files etc in the destination
directory of the link instead of in /etc. Then
ln -sf /dev/shm/mtab /etc/mtab et voila
I've been thinking of doing this for Debian.
Mike.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-26 10:15 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 [this message]
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
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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