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 <tho...@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Our current process of initializing /etc/mtab is > >> hackish and probably error-prone, replace it by > >> simply copying /proc/mounts. > >> --- > > > > Looks good to me (but untested). This goes way back to the roots of Arch, > > wow. > > The only weirdness that I found is that "rootfs" is now shown as a mount: > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > > Technically this is correct, but some tools might become confused. > Another way would be to grep -v ^rootfs from /proc/mounts when creating > mtab. I am entirely unsure what the "right way" is here.
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. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos
