From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
To: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche@t-online.de>
Cc: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
Date: 26 Feb 2003 12:14:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xwujn2t0v.fsf@manganonaujakasit.e.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Olaf Dietsche's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:00:43 +0100"
Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche@t-online.de> writes:
> >>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 thought, this is what /var is for. So, /var/run, /var/lib/misc or
> /var/etc might be more appropriate?
What if /var is mounted separately?
> OTOH, "ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab" works just fine here.
The only problem I have with that is that option 'user' is lost. This
means that any user can mount /cdrom, but only root can unmount it.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-26 11:04 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 [this message]
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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