On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 12:33 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:19:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The use of a symlink for /etc/mtab in wheezy means that 'mount -f' no longer > > works. As a consequence, extra mount options that libmount *should* record > > in /run/mount/utab are not recorded for any filesystem that is mounted > > before the rootfs is marked rw, including but not limited to _netdev. This > > potentially leaves the system with no way to cleanly unmount some > > network-dependent filesystems at shutdown time. > [...] > > This is a significant regression in handling of network-based block devices, > > such as iscsi and nbd, compared with squeeze. I think it's important that > > this be resolved before release. [...] > I've attached what I've done so far to work around this in > initscripts. > > While bugs in mount/libmount/findmnt are certainly the cause of the > lack of _netdev, I'm doubtful that these are addressable in time for > wheezy. [...] > The attached patch does the latter. It looks to see if _netdev is in > use, and if so will refuse to migrate to a symlink. Though it will > do nothing if a symlink already exists, so it won't revert back to > a static file (this could be added easily; I'm just attaching what I've > done so far prior to going away for the week in case you want to push > a fix for this before I get back).
What's the current status here? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
